| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 467 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-467). |
| Summary |
"Since its return to the London stage in 1740, As You Like It has delighted theatergoers, readers, and critics. Its heroine, Rosalind, is one of Shakespeare's greatest characters. The play's Forest of Arden setting and its focus on the relationship between natural occurrences and things created by humans (Shakespeare collectively termed these "art") provide us with access to debates in Renaissance England that relate to the ecological issues of our own time. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, eight illustrations, six photographs, and explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" includes, in its entirety, Shakespeare's primary source for the play--Thomas Lodge's popular prose romance Rosalynde (1590). Reading Shakespeare's play with (and against) Lodge's romance reveals striking similarities and fascinating differences, both large and small. An array of other readings focuses on the central areas of gender and ecology and includes works by Michel de Montaigne, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Bastard, George Gascoygne, and William Prynne. A rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-one commentaries on As You Like It spanning four centuries. Contributors include, among others, Mrs. Anna Jameson, Clara Claiborne Park, Jean E. Howard, Marjorie Garber, James Shapiro, Valerie Traub, Jeffrey Masten, and Robert Smallwood."--Publisher's website. |
| Contents |
The text of As you like it -- Sources and contexts -- Rosalynde / Thomas Lodge -- The benefit of a liberal education / Richard Pace -- Boundaries between animal and human / Keith Thomas -- Humans versus animals / Michel de Montaigne -- How sheep devour the English / Sir Thomas More -- Enclosure, vagrancy, and sedition in the Tudor-Stuart period / William C. Carroll -- Proto-ecological epigrams / Thomas Bastard -- The woeful words of the hart to the hunter / George Gascoygne -- The dangers of theatrical cross-dressing / William Prynne -- Dressing up as a human / Erica Fudge -- The comic mode / Joseph W. Meeker -- Gloves / Walter Benjamin -- Criticism. As you like it / William Hazlitt -- Rosalind / Mrs. Anna Jameson -- As you like it as escape / Edward Dowden -- As you like it : Shakespeare's "sense of an ending" / Anne Barton -- Perspectives on pastoral / Rosalie Colie -- Country matters : As you like it and the pastoral-bashing impulse / Linda Woodbridge -- As we like it : how a girl can be smart and still popular / Clara Claiborne Park -- "The place of a brother" in As you like it / Louis Adrian Montrose -- "Like the old Robin Hood" : As you like it and the enclosure riots / Richard Wilson -- Crossdressing, the theatre, and gender struggle in early modern England / Jean E. Howard -- Rosalind the yeshiva boy / Marjorie Garber -- The play in 1599 / James Shapiro -- Pancakes and a date for As you like it / Juliet Dusinberre -- Friendship in As you like it / Laurie Shannon -- The homoerotics of As you like it / Valerie Traub -- Constructions of negation in As you like it / Cynthia Marshall -- Ganymede's hand in As you like it / Jeffrey Masten -- Likenesses : Jaques and the deer / Robert N. Watson -- Food and biological nature [in] As you like it / Gabriel Egan -- As you like it : performance and reception / Michael Jamieson -- Royal Shakespeare Company stagings of the final scene / Robert Smallwood. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it.
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Shakespeare, William.
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As you like it (Shakespeare, William) (OCoLC)fst01356506
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Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
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Exiles -- Drama.
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Comedies.
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Exiles -- Drama.
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Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
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Pastoral drama.
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Exiles. (OCoLC)fst00918139
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Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
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| Genre/Form |
Pastoral drama. (OCoLC)fst01726694
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Comedy plays (OCoLC)fst01921567
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Pastoral drama.
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Comedy plays.
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Pastoral drama.
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| Added Author |
Marcus, Leah S. (Leah Sinanoglou), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780393927627 (pbk.) |
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0393927628 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
40020189293 |
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