Illustrations

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1. Vanessa Redgrave a Rosalind for the RSC, 1961–63

2. (left) Mrs siddons as Rosalind by Joseph Wright of Derby. c. 1778

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3. Ganymede with Zeus disguised as an eagle by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817

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4. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus by William Holman Hunt, 1850-51, from Shakespeare’s play The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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5. Rebecca Hall as Rosalind at Theatre Royal Bath and in the USA, 2003;

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6. Janet Suzman as Rosalind for the RSC, 1968;

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7. Sally Scott as Rosalind (lelf) with Kaisa Hammarlund as Celia (right) at the Southwark Playhouse, 2014

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8. Juliet Rylance as Rosalind with Christian Camargo as Orlando at The Old Vic, 2010;

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9. Adrian Lester (right) as Rosalind for Cheek by Jowl, 1991;

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10. The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind (with Celia looking on) by Walter Deverell, 1853

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11. Pippa Nixon as Rosalind for the RSC, 2013;

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12. Edith Evans (top) as Rosalind at The Old Vic, 1936/7;

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13. Juliet Stevenson (left) as Rosalind with Fiona Shaw (right) as Celia for the RSC, 1985

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14. Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind with William Prince as Orlando on Broadway, 1950;

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15. Laurence Olivier as Orlando in the 1936 film of As You Like It;

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16. Ronald Pickup as Rosalind at The Old Vic, 1967

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17. Helen Faucit, one of the great Victorian Rosalinds

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18. Dorothy Jordan as Rosalind by Sir William Beechey, 1787

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19. Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the 1936 film of As You Like It

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20. Cush Jumbo as Rosalind at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester for which she won the Ian Charleson Award 2012

21. (Below) Rosalind in As You Like It by Arthur Hughes, 1871–3