As You Like It (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

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William Shakespeare's As You Like It provides face to face text and notes, a chronology of Skakespeare's life and times, text derived from the earliest printings, often preserving puns and wordplay otherwise lost, and up-to-date commentary on the structure, atmosphere and content of the play and on its sources and influences.

Biographical Note:

"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.