Category: As You Like It

Thank you to Sean Keilen for introducing As You Like It.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature and Director of Shakespeare Workshop at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006) and an editor of The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture(Palgrave 2009), as well as ten volumes of Shakespeare criticism, Shakespeare: The Critical Complex (Garland 1999). In 2017, he published The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature with Nick Moschovakis. Professor Keilen’s research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Huntington Library. 

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into As You Like It:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Read a synopsis of the play from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
• Watch video synopses from Pop Up Shakespeare or Finger Puppet Shakespeare.
• Full productions on YouTube: a 1936 film version starring Laurence Olivier, a 2014 version from Shakespeare & Company, and a 2019 version from Rice University.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of As You Like It from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.