As You Like It: Classicscript (Players Press Classicscript)

COMEDY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. CLASSICSCIPT EDITION. ADAPTED, EDITE AND INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM-ALAN LANDES. CAST OF TWENTY-ONE (17M, 4F) PLUS EXTRAS. ORLANDO, THE YOUNGER SON OF THE LATE SIR ROWLAND, IS BEING DENIES HIS INHERITANCE BY HIS JEALOUS BROTHER, WHO PLOTS TO MURDER HIM AT A WRESTLING CONTEST HELD BY THE USURPER DUKE FREDERICK. WHEN ORLANDO WINS THE CONTEST, HE IS FORCED TO FLEE INTO THE WILD FOREST OF ARDEN, WHERE HE JOINS A BAND OF OUTCAST NOBLES HEADED BY THE RIGHTFUL DUKE - BUT NOT BEFORE HE MEETS AND BECOMES INFATUATED WITH ROSALIND, DAUGHER OF THE RIGHTFUL DUKE, RETAINED IN DUKE FREDERICK'S HOUSEHOLD AS COMPANION TO HIS DAUGHTER CELIA. WHEN ROSALIND IS FINALLY BANISHED BY THE JEALOUS DUKE FREDERICK, SHE AND CELIA DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS MEN AND FLEE TO ARDEN. THERE THEY BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ROMANTIC MISADVENTURES OF VAROUS FOREST CHARACTERS-AND ROSALIND, DISGUISED, FINDS HERSELF COACHING THE LOVESTRUCK ORLANDO IN HOW TO WOO ROSALIND!