Author
West
Year
2016
Publisher
Punctum Books
Language
English
Pages
5
Last Update
21-Aug-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature
As You Like It is and long has been one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays. Critics in the nineteenth century in particular were captivated by what they saw as its artful blend of wistful nostalgia, buoyant optimism, and a dash of worldly wisdom in what the great Romantic essayist William Hazlitt declared “the most ideal of any of this author’s plays.” Love for the play was tied up in an equally ardent Victorian love for the character of Rosalind, which even Shakespeare’s most famous baiter George Bernard Shaw recognized with some exasperation: “Who ever failed, or could fail, as Rosalind?”
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