Since its return to the London stage in 1740, As You Like It has delighted theatergoers, readers, and critics. Its heroine, Rosalind, is one of Shakespeare’s greatest characters. The play’s Forest of Arden setting and its focus on the relationship between natural occurrences and things created by humans (Shakespeare collectively termed these “art”) provide us with access to debates in Renaissance England that relate to the ecological issues of our own time. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, eight illustrations, six photographs, and explanatory annotations.“Sources and Contexts” includes, in its entirety, Shakespeare’s primary source for the play—Thomas Lodge’s popular prose romance Rosalynde (1590). Reading Shakespeare’s play with (and against) Lodge’s romance reveals striking similarities and fascinating differences, both large and small. An array of other readings focuses on the central areas of gender and ecology and includes works by Michel de Montaigne, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Bastard, George Gascoygne, and William Prynne.A rich “Criticism” section includes twenty-one commentaries on As You Like It spanning four centuries. Contributors include, among others, Mrs. Anna Jameson, Clara Claiborne Park, Jean E. Howard, Marjorie Garber, James Shapiro, Valerie Traub, Jeffrey Masten, and Robert Smallwood.A Selected Bibliography is also included.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-10-28
Mått:130 x 213 x 28 mm
Vikt:459 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Norton Critical Editions
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393927627

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Leah S. Marcus is Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Childhood and Cultural Despair, The Politics of Mirth, Puzzling Shakespeare, and Unediting the Renaissance. She has edited two volumes of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I (with Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), a Norton Critical Edition of The Merchant of Venice, and an Arden Early Modern Drama text of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.

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List of IllustrationPrefaceThe Text of As You Like ItA Note on the TextSources and ContextsThomas LodgeRosalyndeRichard Pace [The Benefit of a Liberal Education]Keith Thomas [Boundaries between Animal and Human]Michel de Montaigne [Humans versus Animals]Sir Thomas More [How Sheep Devour the English]William C. Carroll Enclosure, Vagrancy, and Sedition in the Tudor-StuartPeriodThomas Bastard [Proto-ecological Epigrams]George Gascoygne The Woeful Words of the Hart to the HunterWilliam Prynne [The Dangers of Theatrical Cross-Dressing]Erica Fudge Dressing Up as a HumanJoseph W. Meeker The Comic ModeWalter Benjamin ? Gloves CriticismWilliam HazlittAs You Like ItMrs. Anna Jameson RosalindEdward Dowden [As You Like It as Escape]Anne Barton As You Like It: Shakespeare's "Sense of an Ending"Rosalie Colie Perspectives on PastoralLinda Woodbridge As You Like It and the Pastoral-Bashing ImpulseClara Claiborne Park As We Like It: How a Girl Can Be Smart and Still PopularLouis Adrian Montrose "The Place of a Brother" in As You Like ItRichard Wilson "Like the Old Robin Hood": As You Like It and theEnclosure RiotsJean E. Howard Crossdressing, the Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early ModernEnglandMarjorie Garber Rosalind the Yeshiva BoyJames Shapiro [The Play in 1599]Juliet Dusinberre Pancakes and a Date for As You Like ItLaurie Shannon [Friendship in As You Like It]Valerie Traub [The Homoerotics of As You Like It]Cynthia Marshall Constructions of Negation in As You Like ItJeffrey Masten Ganymede's Hand in As You Like ItRobert N. Watson [Likenesses: Jaques and the Deer]Gabriel Egan Food and Biological Nature [in] As You Like ItMichael Jamieson As You Like It: Performance and ReceptionRobert Smallwood ? [Royal Shakespeare Company Stagings of theFinal Scene] Selected Bibliography