As you like it

Introduction. Journeys ; Plays within the play ; Theatrical genres ; Pastoral ; Counter-pastoral ; The condition of the country ; Politics ; 'Between you and the women the play must please' ; Gender ; Nuptials ; Sources ; Date and occasion ; Stage history ; Recent critical and stage interpretations

Note on the text

List of characters

The play

Textual analysis

Appendixes : 1. An early court performance? ; 2. Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind ; 3. The songs.