List of Illustrations

1.     Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind for the RSC, 1961-63. © Trinity-Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo

2.     Mrs Siddons as Rosalind by Joseph Wright of Derby, oil sketch on panel, 240 x 165 mm, c. 1778, Smallhythe Place, Kent, National Trust. © National Trust Images

3.     Ganymede with Zeus disguised as an eagle by Bertel Thorvaldsen, marble, 93.3 x 118.3 cm, 1817, Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, A44.

4.     Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus by William Holman Hunt, 1850-51, from Shakespeare’s play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, oil on canvas, 100.2 x 133.4 cm, 1850-51, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. © Birmingham Museums Trust

5.     Rebecca Hall as Rosalind at Theatre Royal Bath and in the USA, 2003. © Tristram Kenton/Lebrecht Music & Arts

6.     Janet Suzman as Rosalind for the RSC, 1968. Reg Wilson © RSC

7.     Sally Scott as Rosalind (left) with Kaisa Hammarlund as Celia/Aliena (right) at the Southwark Playhouse, 2014. © Robert Workman

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

9.     Adrian Lester (right) as Rosalind for Cheek by Jowl, 1991. © Haynes/ Lebrecht Music & Arts

10.   The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind (with Celia looking on) by Walter Deverell, from As You Like It, Act 4 Scene 1, oil on canvas, 608 x 506 mm, 1853, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. © Birmingham Museums Trust

11.   Pippa Nixon as Rosalind for the RSC, 2013. Keith Pattison © RSC

12.   Edith Evans as Rosalind at The Old Vic, 1936/7. © Lebrecht Music & Arts

13.   Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind with Fiona Shaw as Celia for the RSC 1985. Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

14.   Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind with William Prince as Orlando on Broadway 1950. © Archive Photos/Stringer / Moviepix / Getty Images

15.   Laurence Olivier as Orlando in the 1936 film of As You Like It. © John Kobal Foundation / Moviepix / Getty Images

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

17.   Helen Faucit (Lady Martin) in 1881, drawing by Annette Elias, from Sir Theodore Martin’s Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) 1900. © University of Victoria Library

18.   Dorothy Jordan as Rosalind by Sir William Beechey, oil on canvas, 762 x 634 mm, 1787, Private Collection.

19.   Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the 1936 film of As You Like It. © ‘INTER-ALLIED / Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Fvans’

20.   Cush Jumbo as Rosalind at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 2012. ©Jonathan Keenan Photography

21.   As You Like It (triptych) by Arthur Hughes, oil on canvas, 71 x 99 cm, 1871-3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, showing the right wing of the triptych, 71 x 46 cm, inscribed on the tree: ‘Rosalind’, and on a scroll on the left ‘[From the east to western] Ind, / [No] jewel is [like] Rosalind...’