As You Like It: Texts and Contexts

This edition of As You Like It reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations. Including pastoral poetry, ballads, diatribes, jest books, tracts, emblems, maps, and woodcuts, the documents contextualize pastoral conventions
hetero- and homoerotic desire
cross-dressing by boy players
the meanings of 'ganymede, ' folly, and fools
censorship and the risks of satire
and debates about gentility, manners, and education.