As you like it

General editors' preface ; Preface ; Introduction. A brief view of the play ; Fictions of gender : Rosalind and the boy actor ; Later Rosalinds ; Celia ; Orlando ; Phoebe and Audrey ; Date ; The Forest of Arden : 'Well, this is the Forest of Arden' ; The hunt ; Robin Hood and his merry men ; Staging the Forest of Arden ; Early foresters : The Earl of Essex ; Thomas Morley ; Realms of gold : Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge ; Shakespeare and Sidney ; Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais ; Golden worlds ; Pastoral : Genre ; entertainments for Elizabeth ; Corin and Touchstone ; Borderlands ; love and politics ; A wise man and a fool ; Jaques and Touchstone ; 'A speaking picture' ; readers and painters ; Text : The staying order ; The Folio text: provenance and editorial practices ; Text and performance ; Epilogue:'All the world's a stage' ; AS YOU LIKE IT ; App. 1. A court epilogue, Shrovetide 1599 ; App. 2. Casting and doubling ; App. 3. Ben Jonson, As You Like It and the 'War of the Theatres' ; App. 4. The Douai manuscript ; App. 5. Political after-lives : Veracini's opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723) ; Abbreviations and references : Abbreviations used in notes ; Works by and partly by Shakespeare ; Editions of Shakespeare collated ; Other works cited ; Manuscripts ; Other works ; Stage and film productions cited ; Eighteenth-century productions ; Nineteenth-century productions ; Twentieth-century productions ; Twenty-first-century productions ; Index