Listeners new to the story will quickly become lost with dozens of characters and multiple double identities. Clare Higgins has a pleasing British accent and delivers a rapid-fire telling. The story abounds in mistaken identities, gender bending, and love affairs, but all's well that ends well with four weddings in the pastoral forest. Disguised as Ganymede, Rosalind counsels Orlando and attempts to cure him of his love. They disguise themselves as boys, and Rosalind encounters her true love, Orlando, pining for her in the forest. When Celia's father usurps her cousin Rosalind's father, the Duke, for control of the court, the two girls are banished to the Forests of Arden. Gr 6-10-Shakespeare's comedy is re-imagined here as a short novel (Houghton Mifflin, 1991).
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