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| As You Like It is the quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts, and reconciliations, all within the atmospheric confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. As the title suggests, As You Like It is a play in which everyone gets their way, where sinners are redeemed, and where love holds sway over all. And because it is Shakespeare, even so light a comedy contains a wealth of keen observations about humanity in general, and in particular about the age-old tension between so-called civilized society and the state of nature from which it evolved. No less poetically accomplished than Shakespeare's more serious works, As You Like It is a stimulating literary pleasure from start to finish. The complete play in five acts, read by Vanessa Redgrave. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. 2000. ISBN: 1559940859. Two CDs, unabridged, approximately 2 hours & 30 minutes in length. |
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