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'All the world's a stage,
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Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a boy. In the guise of a young man, she instructs her would-be lover Orlando in the ways of love and in doing so allows Shakespeare to explore the dynamics of the city and the country as well as the sexual politics of the time.
| ISBN: | 9780007902392 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 2011 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Collins Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Gender studies: women and girls Theatre studies Comedic plays Literary studies: plays and playwrights |