As You Like It: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition (Paperback)

from charles.littrell

Papadinis is an experienced and articulate Shakespeare producer and director. In this book (and series) she is arguing two points: first, that any serious production should start from the First Folio, and not from a modern edited version of the play; and second, that Shakespeare was much bawdier ...

from michaelg16

Though As You Like It is a wonderfully fun play - and NYC's Shakespeare in the Park is currently performing it to great applause -it would and will be greatly enhanced as this"frankly annoatated" edition begins to find a readership among both directors and actors as well as playgoers. I actually ...

from mkh4d

While I found the author's introduction to this book and the content of the footnotes to be very informative and interesting, the format of 3/4 of a page of text followed by 1 1/4 pages of notes made it somewhat difficult to follow the storyline. However, apart from my dislike of the formating I ...

from moibibliomaniac

At first blush, especially after reading the author's Introduction, I thought this book was going to be a form of sexual sensationalism. Demitra Papadinis minces no words; in her Introduction, she says she wants to put the "count" back in "country." Papadinis says that modern editors have sanitiz...

from moibibliomaniac

At first blush, especially after reading the author's Introduction, I thought this book was going to be a form of sexual sensationalism. Demitra Papadinis minces no words; in her Introduction, she says she wants to put the "count" back in "country." Papadinis says that modern editors have sanitiz...