A scene from As You Like It by Francis Hayman (c. 1750)Why do we keep returning with joy to As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's most plotless works? A delightful suspension of action may be part of its perverse appeal, as I wrote in a program piece back in 2005 for the Center Theatre Group:In As You Like It, Shakespeare comes as close as he ever did to a kind of Socratic dialogue in theme-and-variations form, with c…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:00AM on June 15, 2012