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From Page to Stage: A Review on William Shakespeare’s As You Like It

Joey B. Ting

 

Abstract:

IN CELEBRATION of the University of the Philippines’ Centennial, the duly recognized academic theater organization in Diliman, Dulaang UP, presented in September 2007 English and Filipino versions of As You Like It (Paano Man Ang Ibig), a romantic comedy written by the eminent playwright of the Elizabethan stage, William Shakespeare. The Filipino version was the translation of the late National Artist for Theater and Literature Rolando Tinio. The play was presented at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, Palma Hall Building. This theater review touches in part on feministic images used by Estrella in her postmodern day interpretation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It and juxtaposes the debatable issue on the representation of female characters in Elizabethan Theater.