Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display having at least two optically anisotropic substance sheets and a liquid crystal cell between a pair of polarizers consisting of a light incident side polarizer and a light emission side polarizer, which have light transmission axes substantially perpendicular to each other. The liquid crystal display satisfies the formula: (?nxi+?nyi)/2??nzi wherein ? is the total of i=1 to k where k is the number of the anisotropic sheets, nxi and nyi are in-plane principal refractive indexes of an i-th anisotropic, provided that nxi>nyi, and nzi is a principal refractive index in thickness direction; and a multilayered optical body (A) consisting of the k anisotropic sheets and the liquid crystal cell satisfies the formula: 0.90<R40/R0<1.