As You Like It

Zusatztext 'This is one of Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedies, an ironic fairy tale of love and sex, sincerity and pretension, betrayal and loyalty.' Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalindas authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeareas 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 Zusammenfassung 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.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Julie Dusinberre (Editor), Juliet Dusinberre (Editor), Professor Juliet Dusinberre (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.07.2006
• EAN: 9781904271222
• ISBN: 978-1-904271-22-2
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Englisch; Lektüre, Theaterstücke (div.), Literary studies: plays and playwrights