Shakespeare - As You Like It

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2018
Series:
Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Author:
Dana E. Aspinall
ISBN:
9781137470508
Related ISBNs:
9781137470492
Publisher:
Macmillan Education UK
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-03-16
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
part of Springer Nature 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction