Shakespeare - As You Like It

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-137-47048-5
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aspinall, Dana E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Dana Aspinall is Associate Professor of English at Alma College, USA. He has published widely on Shakespeare's comedies.