Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.
This book is part of a book series called Oxford School Shakespeare .
There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Oxford University Press .
Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Series editor, Roma Gill, has taught Shakespeare at all levels, and has acted in, directed, and given lectures on Shakespeare's plays the world over.
This book contains the following story:
As You Like it
Shakespeare drew upon tales of Robin Hood for his play As you Like It. Heroine Rosalind flees persecution from her uncles court and with her fellow exiles makes peace with the world, living out in the Forest of Dean. The play contains the famous line All the worlds a stage.