With its explorations of sexual ambivalence As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first
century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalindas authority in the play grows from new
ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeareas heroine reinvents herself for every age. But
the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some
of the hotly debated issues of the period. This will be the definitive edition of As You Like
It for many years to come - Phyllis Rackin University of Pennsylvania
