As You Like It

By Dana Aspinall

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 Itand 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 Itcontinue 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137470488
• ISBN13: 9781137470485
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"