FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY - Editors' Preface - As You Like It

Sep 20, 2026

Designed as a Folger Shakespeare Library edition for reading Shakespeare with paired text and glosses, this eBook supports two-page viewing and reversible cross-links between commentary boxes and referenced passages. It describes the New Folger Library approach: modernized spelling and punctuation, scene-by-scene action summaries, extensive explanatory notes, clarifying pictures, and documentation of significant departures from early printed versions. Editor and director profiles and a director’s introduction frame the edition as a scholarship-driven resource for students and general readers.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages321

Reading Time8 h 14 min

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About this eBook

THE NEW FOLGER LIBRARYSHAKESPEARE

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

From the Director of the Library

Editors' Preface

Shakespeare's As You Like It

Reading Shakespeare's Language: As You Like It - Shakespeare's Life - Shakespeare's Theater

The Publication of Shakespeare's Plays

An Introduction to This Text

Text of the Play with Commentary

Longer Notes

Textual Notes

As You Like It: A Modern Perspective

Further Reading

Key to Famous Lines and Phrases

# FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY 4.YouK大e大Ву Упыам ЭнакезреакеМттн ОетАПеО МОтебFROM THE WORLD'sLEADING CENTER FORSHAKESPEARE STUDIESЕытвр ву Ваквака А. МоуатAND PAUL WERSTINE # About this eBook This eBook is best read in two-page view sothat the text and the accompanying glosses aredisplayed alongside one another. If you're reading in Adobe Digital Editions,youcan switch to two-page view by selecting "FitDouble Pages"in the Reading menu. Outlined boxes that are found in the commentary notes onthe left side of the screen,as well as elsewhere in the book,indicate a link to the place referenced;clicking on the placereferenced (whether it be the appropriate act-scene-linenumber under a picture,the unboxed boldface words at thebeginning of a commentary note or a longer note,or theunboxed word(s)in the text of the play or poem)willreturn you to the outlined box with which you started.(Inother words,the links are reversible.) Links from the text itself to the textual notes are not boxed,but placing the cursor over a word in the text that has beeneditorially added or changed and is thus in brackets(e.g.,and)will reveal the link to the relevant textual note.Thelink from the note back to the text will be indicated by anoutlined box.Many of the bracketed words in the stagedirections are editorial additions,without textual notes. ## THE NEW FOLGER LIBRARYSHAKESPEARE Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available toall readers,the New Folger Library edition of Shake-speare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spellingand punctuation,as well as scene-by-scene action sum-maries,full explanatory notes,many pictures clarifyingShakespeare's language,and notes recording all signifi-cant departures from the early printed versions.Eachplay is prefaced by a brief introduction,by a guide toreading Shakespeare's language,and by accounts of hislife and theater.Each play is followed by an annotatedlist of further readings and by a“Modern Perspective”written by an expert on that particular play. Barbara A.Mowat is Director of Academic Programs atthe Folger Shakespeare Library,Executive Editor ofShakespeare Quarterly,Chair of the Folger Institute,and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Ro-mances and of essays on Shakespeare's plays and onthe editing of the plays. Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the GraduateSchool and at King's University College at the Universityof Western Ontario.He is general editor of the NewVariorum Shakespeare and author of many papers andarticles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare'splays. The Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,D.C.,aprivately funded research library dedicated to Shake-speare and the civilization of early modern Europe,wasfounded in 1932 by Henry Clay and Emily JordanFolger.In addition to its role as the world's preeminentShakespeare collection and its emergence as a leadingcenter for Renaissance studies,the Folger Library offersa wide array of cultural and educational programs andservices for the general public. EDITORS BARBARA A.MOWATDirector of Academic ProgramsFolger Shakespeare Library PAUL WERSTINEProfessor of English King's University College at the University ofWestern Ontario,Canada ## FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY 天 ## ByWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EDITED BY BARBARA A.MoWATAND PAUL WERSTINE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESSNew YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY A WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS Original Publication Washington Square Press1230 Avenue of the AmericasNew York,NY 10020 Copyright ◎1997 by The Folger Shakespeare Library All rights reserved,including the right to reproducethis book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.For information address Washington Square Press,1230 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NY 10020 ISBN 13:978-0-7434-8486-2 ISBN 10:0-7434-8486-X eISBN-13:978-1-4391-1698-2 Washington Square Press New Folger Edition April 1997This Edition July 2004. WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS and colophon areregiste

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How should the eBook be viewed to read the glosses effectively?

Read it in two-page view so the main text and accompanying glosses appear side by side.

How do the links in the commentary work?

Outlined boxes indicate referenced places; clicking returns you to the box you started with, making the links reversible.

What editorial features does the New Folger Library Shakespeare edition provide?

It offers accurate texts with modern spelling and punctuation, scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, clarifying pictures, and notes on significant departures from early printed versions.

Sep 20, 2026

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