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As You Like It by William Shakespeare

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Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students. In this issue, Nora J. Williams unwraps As You Like It
Mark Desebrock and Katy Secombe in As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe (2021)
Mark Desebrock and Katy Secombe in As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe (2021) - Marc Brenner

As You Like It, first performed in 1599, offers wonderful opportunities for student performers, and starting points for conversations about gender, sexuality, and the environment. Moving from the cold, threatening court to the liberating Forest of Arden, the play invites us into a magical world where the normal rules of society do not apply. In this realm our heroine Rosalind can woo Orlando, the villainous Oliver can be converted to goodness, and the gods can be summoned at a moment's notice to officiate weddings. It's also a play full of familiar lines, from Jaques' ‘all the world's a stage’ to Phoebe's ‘who ever loved that loved not at first sight’.

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