New Cambridge Shakespeare - As You Like It
Author(s): William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway - University of Sheffield (Edited by)
Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a section on recent critical, stage and film interpretations of the play, an updated reading list and a new appendix on an early court performance of As You Like It in 1599. Mapping the complexities of the play's setting - a no man's land related to both France and England, the edition also includes detailed commentary on its language and an analytical account of performance.
Product Information
Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield.
Preface; Introduction: Journeys; Plays within the play; Theatrical genres; Pastoral; Counter-pastoral; The condition of the country; Politics; 'Between you and the women the play may please'; Gender; Nuptials; Sources; Date and occasion; Stage history; Screen versions; Recent critical and stage interpretations: Contexts; Recent stage history; A screen version; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual analysis; Appendix 1. An early court performance?; Appendix 2. Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind; Appendix 3. The songs; Reading list.
General Fields
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- : Cambridge University Press
- : Cambridge University Press
- : 0.41
- : 01 September 2009
- : 228mm X 152mm X 13mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway - University of Sheffield (Edited by)
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 822.33
- : 256
- : 17 b/w illus.
