As You Like It

Informationen zum Autor Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext This second edition of As You Like It features a new section on recent interpretations. Zusammenfassung In this second edition of Shakespeare's As You Like It! Michael Hattaway accounts for what makes this play both innocent and dangerous. The volume features a new section on recent critical! stage and film interpretations of the play as well as commentary on its language and an updated reading list. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hattaway, William Shakespeare, William Hattaway Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Michael Hattaway (Editor), Michael (University of Sheffield) Hattaway (Editor), Hattaway Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521732505
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73250-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 299 mm x 15 mm
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS); New cambridge shakespeare; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes; English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights