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As you like it

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With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, "As You Like it" speaks directly to the twenty-first century.

Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates 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 "As You Like it" is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture.

Through the concealing medium of literary pastoral, Shakespeare addresses some of the hottest issues of his own time, including the fortunes of the Earl of Essex and the theatre's confrontation with Puritan disapproval; this new edition 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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The Arden Shakespeare
1904271227 / 9781904271222
Paperback / softback
822.33
25/07/2006
United Kingdom
English
xviii, 449 p. : ill.
20 cm
general /research & professional Learn More
Quiz No: 211058, Points 4.00, Book Level 9.20,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Author, William Shakespeare.