COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- SERIES-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PRODUCTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Peculiarities of the play as a performance piece -- Seventeenth century -- Charles Johnson's 'Love in a Forest' -- Eighteenth century: romping actresses and the struggle for decorum -- Dora Jordan: 'spirit of enjoyment' -- Into the nineteenth century: opera, spectacle, and a new Rosalind -- Kemble's revisions -- Macready's restorations -- Helena Faucit: Rosalind 'ethereally embodied' -- Charles Kean and the growth of pictorial staging -- Charlotte Cushman: a Tiresian Ganymede -- Samuel Phelps and the conventional Jaques -- Victorian excesses -- Scenic illusionism: Hare-Kendal's stage grass and Sullivan's stuffed stag -- Moral entertainment -- The feminine ideal -- Other Rosalinds -- Augustin Daly's triumph -- Turn of the century: transition to a freer Arden -- Oscar Asche's greenhouse -- Nigel Playfair's break with scenic illusionism -- Open-air Arden -- The play settles in -- Early film versions -- Foreign productions -- Vanessa Redgrave: 'a Rosalind to remember' -- Clifford Williams: sexless love -- Experiments in the 1960s and 1970s -- BBC television -- Peter Stein's journey to Arden -- Adrian Noble and gender-bending in the 1980s -- Christine Edzard's dystopic Arden -- Cheek by Jowl -- Shakespeare's Globe -- LIST OF CHARACTERS -- AS YOU LIKE IT -- ACT 1, SCENE 1 -- ACT 1, SCENE 2 -- ACT 1, SCENE 3 -- ACT 2 -- ACT 2, SCENE 1 -- ACT 2, SCENE 2 -- ACT 2, SCENE 3 -- ACT 2, SCENE 4 -- ACT 2, SCENE 5 -- ACT 2, SCENE 6 -- ACT 2, SCENE 7 -- ACT 3, SCENE 1 -- ACT 3, SCENE 2 -- ACT 3, SCENE 3 -- ACT 3, SCENE 4 -- ACT 3, SCENE 5 -- ACT 3, SCENE 6 -- ACT 4, SCENE 1 -- ACT 4, SCENE 2 -- ACT 4, SCENE 3 -- ACT 5, SCENE 1 -- ACT 5, SCENE 2 -- ACT 5, SCENE 3 -- ACT 5, SCENE 4.

[EPILOGUE] -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.