Such a fun gender-bender comedy! I can't believe this play isn't more well-known. I am always impressed when jokes are still funny a decade later... Imagine how well-written this is to be funny several centuries later!

As I detest reading plays, I listened to the BBC radio play (with Helena Bonham Carter as Rosalind) while I read the Penguin annotated script. Hearing the voices helped a whole lot, and they really do sing the songs with instruments. The BBC play is abridged, just FYI, and really is not able stand alone without a thorough knowledge of the plot and characters (or reading along at the same time). Paired together was great, though.