Shakespeare's comedy of As you like it; . Oliver (Act IV. Scene 3). The Forest of Arden INTRODUCTION TO AS YOU LIKE IT The History of the Play As You Like It was first printed, so far as we know, inthe folio of 1623. The earliest notice of it by name isfound in the Registers of the Stationers Company, on aleaf which does not belong to the regular records, butcontains miscellaneous entries, notes, etc. Between twoof these, the one dated in May, 1600, and the other inJune, 1603, occurs the following memorandum : ^ — 1 We print this as Wright gives it. In Halliwell-Phillippss folio appears
Shakespeare's comedy of As you like it; . Oliver (Act IV. Scene 3). The Forest of Arden INTRODUCTION TO AS YOU LIKE IT The History of the Play As You Like It was first printed, so far as we know, inthe folio of 1623. The earliest notice of it by name isfound in the Registers of the Stationers Company, on aleaf which does not belong to the regular records, butcontains miscellaneous entries, notes, etc. Between twoof these, the one dated in May, 1600, and the other inJune, 1603, occurs the following memorandum : ^ — 1 We print this as Wright gives it. In Halliwell-Phillippss folio appears thus : — 9 lo As You Like It 4. August!As you like yt / a bookeHenry the ffift / a bookeEuery man in his humour / a bookeThe commedie of muche A doo about nothing a booke / ? to be staied. All these books are stated to be my lord chamber-lens menns plaies, which confirms the opinion that theentry refers to the year 1600. Henry V, and Much AdoAbout Nothing were duly Ucensed (the former on the14th and the latter on the 23d of August) and publishedthat year; a
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