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  35. J. C. Trewin, Shakespeare on the Stage, 1900-1964: A Survey of Productions (1964), pp. 127-98.

  36. Brooks Atkinson, New York Times, 27 January 1950.

  37. The Times (London), 30 April 1952.

  38. Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, Autumn 1957, pp. 461-92.

  39. H. Granville-Barker, Plays and Players, Vol. 4, No. 8, May 1957, p. 13.

  40. Marshall, As You Like It, p. 64.

  41. Ibid., p. 67.

  42. Ibid., p. 68.

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Ibid., p. 69.

  46. Ibid.

  47. Ibid., p. 81.

  48. Irving Wardle, The Times (London), 4 October 1967.

  49. Dana Adams Schmidt, New York Times, 6 October 1967.

  50. Wardle, The Times (London), 4 October 1967.

  51. Martin Gottfried, "British Theater: 'As You Like It,' " in his Opening Nights: Theater Criticism of the Sixties (1969), pp. 284-87.

  52. Wardle, The Times (London), 4 October 1967.

  53. Colin Chambers (RSC Literary Manager at the time) quoted in Marshall, As You Like It, p. 33.

  54. Glenn Loney, "Shakespeare, the Canadian," Christian Century, Vol. 94, No. 31, 5 October 1977, pp. 882-84.

  55. Roger Warren, Shakespeare Survey, Vol. 33, 1980, pp. 169-80.

  56. Marshall, As You Like It, p. 60.

  57. Ibid., p. 69.

  58. Independent, 4 January 1995.

  59. City Limits, 12 December 1991.

  60. Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson, eds, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History (1996), p. 6.

  61. Robert Brustein, New Republic, Vol. 221, No. 14, 4 October 1999, pp. 35-36.

  62. Lois Potter, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 76-77.

  63. Potter, Shakespeare Quarterly.

  64. Marshall, As You Like It, p. 65.

  65. Ibid., p. 86.

  66. Amelia Marriette, "Urban Dystopias: Reapproaching Christine Edzard's As You Like It," in Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray (2000), pp. 73-88.

  67. Marshall, As You Like It, p. 86.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Richard David, "Reality and Artifice," in Shakespeare in the Theatre (1978).

  70. Bamber Gascoigne, Spectator, Vol. 207, No. 6943, 14 July 1961.

  71. J. W. Lambert, Sunday Times, 9 July 1961.

  72. Marshall, As You Like It.

  73. Penny Gay, As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (1994).

  74. Roger Warren, Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 1986.

  75. Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman, vol. 99, no. 2560, 11 April 1980.

  76. Irving Wardle, The Times (London), 5 April 1980.

  77. John Bowe, "Orlando," in Players of Shakespeare, ed. Philip Brockbank (1985).

  78. Nicholas de Jongh, Guardian, 19 December 1985.

  79. Ibid.

  80. Marshall, As You Like It.

  81. Gregory Doran on his idea for the setting of As You Like It, 2000, interviewed by Nigel Cliff, The Times (London), 22 March 2000.

  82. Donald Baker, Cahiers Elisabethains, No. 18, October 1980.

  83. John Elsom, Listener, Vol. 98, No. 2526, 15 September 1977.

  84. B. A. Young, Financial Times, 9 November 1977.

  85. Sunday Times, 11 November 1977.

  86. Robert Speaight, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, Autumn 1973.

  87. Jeremy Kingston, Punch, 20 June 1973.

  88. B. A. Young, Financial Times, 13 June 1973.

  89. Marshall, As You Like It, quoting from the Financial Times' review, 13 June 1973.

  90. Katharine Duncan-Jones, "The Play in Performance," in William Shakespeare: As You Like It, ed. H. J. Oliver (2005).

  91. Bernard Levin in a review of "As You Like It," in Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company 1960-1963, ed. John Goodwin (1964).

  92. Gascoigne, Spectator, 14 July 1961.

  93. J. W. Lambert, Sunday Times, 9 July 1961, quoted in Gay, As She Likes It.

  94. Noel Witts, Plays and Players, Vol. 25, No. 2, November 1977.

  95. Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 23 April 1992.

  96. Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson, "Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It," in Players of Shakespeare 2, ed. Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood (1988).

  97. Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman.

  98. Michael Billington, Guardian, 19 August 2005.

  99. Suzie Mackenzie, Time Out, 2 January 1986.

  100. Warren, Shakespeare Quarterly.

  101. Michael Billington, Guardian, 13 June 1973.

  102. Ibid., 30 April 1996.

  103. Paul Taylor, Independent, 22 August 2005.

  104. Peter Holland, English Shakespeares (1997), quoting from the Times Literary Supplement, 8 May 1992.

  105. Benedict Nightingale, The Times (London), 12 April 1990.

  106. David, "Reality and Artifice."

  107. Irving Wardle, The Times (London), 5 April 1980.

  108. Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays (1997).

  109. Young, Financial Times, 9 November 1977.

  110. David Tennant, "Touchstone," in Players of Shakespeare 4, ed. Robert Small wood (1998).

  111. Christopher Edwards, Spectator, Vol. 254, No. 8184, 18 May 1985.

  112. Susan Irvine, Sunday Telegraph, 21 August 2005.

  113. Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2005.

  114. Billington, Guardian, 19 August 2005.

  115. David, "Reality and Artifice."

  116. Ibid.

  117. J. W. Lambert, Sunday Times, 17 June 1973.

  118. The Times (London), 5 July 1961.

  119. Wardle, The Times (London), 5 April 1980.

  120. Duncan-Jones, "The Play in Performance."

  121. Peter Holland, Shakespeare Survey, Vol. 44, 1991.

  122. Robert Smallwood, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4, Winter 1990.

  123. John Peter, Sunday Times, 26 April 1992.

  124. John Mullan, Times Literary Supplement, 17 May 1996.

  125. Billington, Guardian, 30 April 1996.

  126. Gay, As She Likes It.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND

  PICTURE CREDITS

  Preparation of "As You Like It in Performance" was assisted by a generous grant from the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) of the University of Warwick for research in the RSC archive at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded a term's research leave that enabled Jonathan Bate to work on "The Director's Cut."

  The interview with Naomi Frederick is adapted from her rehearsal blog on playing Rosalind at Shakespeare's Globe in the summer of 2009, with her generous permission and that of the Shakespeare Globe Trust.

  Picture research by Michelle Morton. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for assistance with reproduction fees and picture research (special thanks to Helen Hargest).

  Images of RSC productions are supplied by the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon. This library, maintained by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, holds the most important collection of Shakespeare material in the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company's official archive. It is open to the public free of charge.

  For more information see www.shakespeare.org.uk.

  1. Ada Rehan as Rosalind (1889) Reproduced by permission of the Royal Shakespeare Company 2. Directed by Glen Byam Shaw (1957) Angus McBean (c) Royal Shakespeare Company 3. Directed by Terry Hands (1980) Joe Cocks Studio Collection (c) Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 4. Directed by Michael Elliot (1961) Angus McBean (c) Royal Shakespeare Company 5. Directed by Steven Pimlott (1996) Malcolm Davies (c) Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 6. Directed by Dominic Cooke (2005) Keith Pattison (c) Royal Shakespeare Company 7. Directed by Michael Boyd (2009) Ellie Kurttz (c) Royal Shakespeare Company

  8. Directed by Thea Sharrock (2009) (c) Donald
Cooper/photostage.co.uk

  9. Reconstructed Elizabethan Playhouse (c) Charcoalblue

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  Act 1 Scene 1

  1.1 Location: the whereabouts of Oliver's household is unspecified

  1 Adam name evocative of the biblical first man

  2 poor only

  2 crowns gold coins

  3 charged order was given to

  3 breed bring up

  5 keeps at school maintains at university

  7 stays detains

  7 unkept poorly maintained

  9 stalling stall accommodation

  10 fair in fine condition

  11 manage trained movements

  11 riders horse trainers

  11 dearly at great cost

  13 bound indebted

  15 countenance behavior/attitude to me/support

  16 hinds servants/farmworkers

  17 as ... lies to the best of his ability

  17 mines my gentility undermines my status as a gentleman

  18 grieves vexes

  21 avoid put an end to

  23 Go apart stand aside

  24 shake me up abuse/scold me

  25 make do (Orlando picks up on the sense of "create")

  27 mar ruin

  28 Marry by the Virgin Mary (perhaps plays on mar) 30 be naught awhile i.e. be gone

  33 prodigal portion biblical allusion to the prodigal (wastefully lavish) son, who, having spent all his money, had to look after pigs and eat their scraps 36 orchard garden

  38 knows is aware of/acknowledges the claims of

  39 in ... blood because of our noble breeding

  40 courtesy of nations established custom of civilized society (i.e. rights of inheritance) 42 tradition custom/surrender (of privilege)

  42 blood nobility/kinship/anger

  44 is ... reverence accords you more of the respect that was due to him 48 young immature/inexperienced

  49 villain scoundrel (Orlando plays up the sense of "low-born person") 51 de Bois "of the woods" (French, though probably anglicized to pronunciation "boys") 52 begot conceived

  55 railed on insulted

  56 father's remembrance the sake of your father's memory

  62 qualities accomplishments

  64 exercises activities/skills

  64 become suit

  65 allottery share, allocation

  65 testament will

  69 will (father's) bequest/(your)wish

  70 offend vex/assail

  76 grow upon trouble/take liberties with

  77 physic cure

  77 rankness insolence/overgrowth/disease

  78 neither either

  78 Holla a shout to catch attention

  82 So if it

  82 importunes asks insistently for

  86 morrow morning

  91 loving i.e. loyal

  93 good leave full permission

  98 ever constantly

  99 to stay by staying

  101 loved i.e. one other

  103 Forest of Arden the Foret des Ardennes in France; Shakespeare would have also known the Forest of Arden near Stratford-upon-Avon 105 Robin Hood popular English outlaw who lived in a forest and robbed the rich to feed the poor 106 fleet pass

  106 carelessly in a carefree way

  107 golden world in classical mythology, the earliest of ages, when life was idyllic 112 fall (wrestling) bout

  113 credit reputation

  114 tender inexperienced

  115 foil defeat

  117 withal with this

  118 stay ... intendment keep him from carrying out his intention 118 brook endure

  119 search seeking

  122 kindly requite fittingly/graciously reward

  123 underhand secret

  126 envious emulator malicious disparager

  127 parts qualities

  128 lief willingly

  130 look to't beware

  131 grace ... thee gain honor at your expense

  131 practise scheme

  132 device stratagem

  136 anatomize dissect, reveal

  140 payment punishment

  140 go alone walk unaided

  144 gamester sportsman

  145 gentle wellborn/honorable/kind

  146 device ingenuity/intention/witty expression/conversation 147 sorts social classes/types of people

  149 misprised despised/undervalued

  150 clear settle

  151 kindle ... thither encourage Orlando to go to the wrestling match Act 1 Scene 2

  1.2 Location: the whereabouts of the court is unspecified

  1 coz short for "cousin"

  3 would wish

  4 learn teach

  8 so provided that

  11 righteously tempered correctly constituted/properly tuned 12 estate fortune

  15 like likely

  16 perforce of necessity

  20 sports pastimes

  22 make sport have fun (plays on the sense of "have sex")

  22 withal with (perhaps with play on "with all")

  23 neither ... again without being able to escape virtuously with no more than an innocent blush (come off plays on the sense of "have an orgasm") 27 housewife mistress of the household/hussy

  31 bountiful blind woman i.e. Fortune, traditionally depicted as a blind woman turning a wheel 33 fair beautiful

  34 honest chaste/virtuous

  35 ill-favouredly ugly

  36 office role

  38 lineaments features

  38.1 Touchstone stone used to test the quality or genuineness of gold and silver alloys 40 fall ... fire i.e. come to disaster (by being burned and disfigu
red, by losing her virginity, or by contracting venereal disease) 41 wit intelligence

  41 flout at mock

  42 fool i.e. Touchstone

  44 natural idiot

  46 Peradventure perhaps

  48 whetstone stone used for sharpening tools

  50 wit ... you "Wit, whither wilt thou?" (i.e. proverbial; refers to one with "wandering" wits) 52 messenger bearer of news/official employed to apprehend state prisoners 56 pancakes these could also have savory fillings

  57 naught worthless

  57 stand to maintain, insist upon

  59 forsworn perjured

  74 taxation slander

  78 troth faith

  80.1 Le Beau "the handsome" (French)

  82 put force

  85 marketable i.e. like pigeons fattened for sale 87 lost missed

  88 colour kind

  92 laid ... trowel expressed excessively/bluntly

  93 rank standing as a wit (Rosalind plays on the sense of "foul-smelling" for a joke about farting) 94 losest lose/let loose, release

  94 old ripe/stale/customary

  95 amaze bewilder

  99 do come

  103 tale puns on "tail" (as opposed to beginning) 104 proper handsome/fine

  106 bills advertisements/legal documents

  107 presents legal documents; plays on presence

  110 that so that

  111 So in the same way

  112 dole lamentation

  121 any anyone

  121 broken discordant/with parts arranged for different instruments (plays on the idea of broken ribs) 126.1 Flourish trumpet fanfare, usually accompanying a person in authority 129 his ... forwardness whatever danger results is due to his reckless confidence 132 looks successfully seems likely to succeed

  133 cousin term used for any relative beyond the immediate family 135 leave permission

  137 odds advantage

  137 man i.e. Charles

  138 fain gladly

  148 come but in merely enter the field

  148 try test

  153 adventure venture

  154 equal evenly matched

  157 misprized undervalued/scorned

  157 suit request, petition

  162 foiled thrown/defeated

  163 gracious favored

  164 friends relatives/supporters

  170 eke out supplement

  171 deceived mistaken

  174 lie ... earth be thrown on the ground/have sex with his mother earth /die and be buried (may anticipate the implied reference to Antaeus, son of Earth who renewed his strength by lying on the ground and whom Hercules defeated in wrestling) 175 will wish/lust/penis

  176 working aim/sexual activity

  177 fall conclusive throw

  178 warrant assure

  181 come your ways come on

  182 Hercules demigod who wrestled with and defeated the mighty giant Antaeus 182 speed protector

  187 down fall

  190 breathed exercised/out of breath

  199 still always

  206 calling name/position in life

  211 unto in addition to

  212 Ere before

  215 envious malicious

  216 Sticks pierces