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Shakespeare - As You Like It
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Artikel-Nr:
9781137470485
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
182
Autor:
Dana E. Aspinall
Gewicht:
266 g
Format:
210x148x11 mm
Serie:
Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dana E. Aspinall
This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important criticism surrounding As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's most popular and engaging comedies, from the earliest appraisals through to twenty-first century scholarship. Dana Aspinall outlines, assesses and explores the key critical issues, including As You Like It and the genre of comedy; Shakespeare's adaptation of sources; gender, love and marriage; and interrogations of power. Highlighting how critical and scholarly studies of As You Like It continue to enrich our understanding of this complex and popular play, this guide is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers, scholars, and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.
Comprehensive and accessible
Introduction 1. 1709-1800: "To Breed Me Well": Determinations of Genre and Character 2. 1800-1900: "Dancing Measures": Arriving at Critical Consensus 3. 1906-1972: "A Great Reckoning" 4. 1948-1980: "Not for All Markets" 5. 1978-Present: "All the World's a Stage" 6. 1980-Present: "To Mutiny Against This Servitude" 7. 1965-Present: "If I Were a Woman" 8. 1981-Present: "She Phebes me" Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index.