As You Like It, 9780192865809
Paperback
Love, laughter, and gender fluidity bloom in Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden.

As You Like It

The New Oxford Shakespeare

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2025

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Summary

‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’ Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It’s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play, upholding it as a crowning expression of the Elizabethan Renaissance while underscoring its appeal to twenty-first century readers as Shakespeare’s most intrepid exploration of gender, sexuality, and the environment.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192865809
ISBN-10:0192865803
Author:William Shakespeare, Francis X. Connor, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:13 October 2025
Weight:148g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 12mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Todd Borlik is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He studied English Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and Keble College, Oxford before completing his PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle. For five years, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of three books and over thirty articles or book chapters on Shakespeare and early modern English literature. He is currently co-editing an Arden guide to The Winter’s Tale and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and the Natural World.

Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.

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