William Shakespeare

As You Like it William Shakespeare

Publisher Marketing: All the world's a stage... - JaquesThe complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliation's, and 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. Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2009 pg. 55 (EAN 9780810983519, Paperback) School Library Journal 03/01/2009 pg. 171 (EAN 9780810983519, Paperback) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 491 (EAN 9780810983519, Paperback) Library Journal 11/01/2000 pg. 143 (EAN 9780140714715, Paperback) Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2000 pg. 66 (EAN 9780141800066, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal 01/01/2000 (EAN 9780141800066, Analog Audio Cassette) Contributor Bio:  Shakespeare, William The poet's birth and baptism. John Shakespeare's marriage with Mary Arden doubtless took place at Aston Cantlowe, the parish church of Wilmcote, in the autumn of 1557 (the church registers begin at a later date). On September 15, 1558, his first child, a daughter, Joan, was baptised in the church of Stratford. A second child, another daughter, Margaret, was baptised on December 2, 1562; but both these children died in infancy. The poet William, the first son and third child, was born on April 22 or 23, 1564. The latter date is generally accepted as his birthday, mainly (it would appear) on the ground that it was the day of his death. There is no positive evidence on the subject, but the Stratford parish registers attest that he was baptised on April 26.