With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks
directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that
Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and
reveals that Shakespeare's 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