Shakespeare - As You Like It by Dana E. Aspinall (English) Paperback Book

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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.

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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 21st 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Introduction1. 1709-1800: "To Breed Me Well": Determinations of Genre and Character2. 1800-1900: "Dancing Measures": Arriving at Critical Consensus3. 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"ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.

Review

Aspinall provides wonderfully cogent summaries of critical responses to As You Like It and its chief characters, placing those responses in a wider historical and intellectual context so as to illuminate how central the play has been to arguments over how to read Shakespeare—and, indeed, how to read at all. * Laurence Publicover, University of Bristol, UK *This erudite but accessible book navigates scholars and undergraduates through the critical reception of As You Like It. Aspinall deftly traces the characters and themes, and the interpretive and performative challenges, that have fascinated audiences for generations. * Rebecca Lartigue, Springfield College, USA *

Long Description

This Guide traces the major criticism surrounding 'As You Like It', from the earliest appraisals through to twenty-first-century scholarship. Aspinall explores the key critical works and issues, including 'As You Like It' and the genre of comedy; Shakespeare's adaptation of sources; gender, love and marriage; and interrogations of power.

Review Quote

"Aspinall provides wonderfully cogent summaries of critical responses to As You Like It and its chief characters, placing those responses in a wider historical and intellectual context so as to illuminate how central the play has been to arguments over how to read Shakespeare-and, indeed, how to read at all." -- Laurence Publicover, University of Bristol, UK "This erudite but accessible book navigates scholars and undergraduates through the critical reception of As You Like It. Aspinall deftly traces the characters and themes, and the interpretive and performative challenges, that have fascinated audiences for generations." -- Rebecca Lartigue, Springfield College, USA

Feature

Comprehensive and accessible

Details ISBN1137470488 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1137470488 ISBN-13 9781137470485 Format Paperback Media Book Author Dana E. Aspinall Pages 182 Publication Date 2018-08-30 Edition 1st Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 822.33 Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-30 NZ Release Date 2018-08-30 Illustrations XVIII, 182 p. Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London AU Release Date 2018-09-07 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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