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As You Like It at the Here Arts Center.

Publisher Shakespeare Bulletin
Publication Shakespeare Bulletin
Subject Arts, visual and performing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0748-2558
Issues per Year 4
Volume 26
Issue 1
Published 2008-03-22

Role Type Name
Reviewee n/a Dan Amboyer
Reviewee n/a Eric Michael Anderson
Reviewee n/a Mike Barth
Reviewee n/a Wilson Chin
Author n/a Julie Fifelski
Reviewee n/a Erik Gratton
Reviewee n/a Kanae Heike
Reviewee n/a Poortom Productions
Reviewee n/a William Shakespeare

As You Like It at the Here Arts Center, March 15-April 1, 2007.

As You Like It is a social play that addresses primarily social concerns, and throughout its four-hundred-year production history, it has remained a particular favorite--especially for newer audiences to Shakespearean theater, it seems--because of its deceptive outward accessibility and crowd-pleasing androgyny. It is a play marked by its daring initiative to cross lines of social stability--oscillating between comedic cross-dressing and the gravity of questioning gender roles. Yet, due to the relative dearth of...

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