As You Like It (1919) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see As You Like It (Shakespeare).

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AS YOU LIKE IT

 

EDITED BY
JACK R. CRAWFORD

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXIX

 

Copyright, 1919
By Yale University Press

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First published, October, 1919

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	23
⁠Act III	45
⁠Act IV	72
⁠Act V	88
Notes	106
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	123
Appendix B. The History of the Play	128
Appendix C. The Text	135
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	136
Index of Words Glossed	137

 

The facsimile opposite shows the cast which performed Johnson's adaptation of 'As You Like It' in 1723, and suggests the nature of the alterations made by Johnson. (See Appendix B for further details.) The title-page mentions neither Shakespeare's name nor that which he gave the comedy. It runs as follows: 'Love in a Forest. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants . . . By Mr. Johnson . . . 1723.'

The Prologue, spoken by Wilks, closes with the following lines:

'Now,—As you like it, judge the following Play,
And when you view this Work retriev'd to Day;
Forgive our modern Author's Honest Zeal,
He hath attempted boldly, if not well:
Believe, he only does with Pain, and Care,
Presume to weed the beautiful Parterre.
His whole Ambition does, at most, aspire
To tune the sacred Bard's immortal Lyre;
The Sceme from Time and Error to restore,
And give the Stage, from Shakespear one Play more.'

 

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society