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As You Like It (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
William Shakespeare
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Description for As You Like It (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
Paperback. With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, this book speaks directly to the twenty-first century. It connects the play to the Elizabethan court and its dynamic queen and demonstrates that the play's vital roots in its own time give it new life in ours. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period."This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period."This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
Product Details
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
The Arden Shakespeare
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904271222
SKU
V9781904271222
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Juliet Dusinberre is a Life Fellow in the Faculty of English at Girton College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Reviews for As You Like It (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
'An Arden editor must present an overview of the play's criticism [and] must also take into account the play's ongoing dissemination through performance on stage and screen. Despite these arduous demands, Dusinberre's edition, with its editorial apparatus, its substantial introduction (142 pages), its notes, and its various appendices, fulfills the above requirements admirably...Dusinberre addresses a theatre history that bears witness ... Read more