A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions.

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey.

Introduction: this strange, eventful history
1 Play, parts and players
2 Hunting for Arden in Warwickshire
3 Materials of performance: denim and silk
4 Between France and Germany
5 At all points like a man
6 Woeful pageants
7 As we like it
Appendix: Major actors and staff for productions discussed in this volume
Index