AS YOU LIKE IT: AS YOU LIKE IT: THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623 AND A PARALLEL MODERN EDITION; ED. BY NICK DE SOMOGYI.

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William Shakespeare: AS YOU LIKE IT: AS YOU LIKE IT: THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623 AND A PARALLEL MODERN EDITION; ED. BY NICK DE SOMOGYI. (Undetermined language, NICK HERN)

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Published by NICK HERN.

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This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living.

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reviewed As you like it by William Shakespeare (The Folger Library general reader's Shakespeare)

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The god is coming, singing.


Wow! This is my favorite in the series so far—and definitely the most unsettling. Because forget about twisted resurrected corpses, eldritch aliens, and gods from the deep. Forced institutionalization in a 19th century asylum is objectively much worse. I wish I had read the trigger warnings before pressing play on this one, tbh, because certain parts did make me feel scared (and also upset and angry and altogether murderous).

Speaking of gods from the deep, though—R'lyeh and the Deep Ones and the whole nautical eldritch horror theme have always been my favorite parts of the mythos, and I absolutely loved how this theme was handled in this book. All the nightmares Whyborne has, the vision slipping into the real world and crowding it out, the magic, the special mix of clarity and confusion—I’m just absolutely digging everything about this. And the deep sea god was …

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