Shakespeare's As you like it : late Elizabethan culture and literary representation / Maurice A. Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Maurice, 1942-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it.

Shakespeare, William.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Mutabilitie cantos.

Spenser, Edmund.

Theater and society--England--History--16th century.

Theater and society.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

History.

England.

Literature and history--England--History--16th century.

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

In the first ever book-length study of the popular Shakespearean comedy As You Like It, Hunt demonstrates how the play represented issues of interest to playgoers at the time the play was written, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Utilizing six different contemporary perspectives ranging from ideas of the gentleman to Judeo-Christian conceptions, Hunt enables a better understanding of the play's original contexts of performance and interpretation.

Contents:

Wrestling for temperance: As you like it and The faerie queene, book 2

Kairos and the ripeness of time in As you like it

Words and deeds in As you like it

As you like it and the "Warwickshire" of Shakespeare's mind

Becoming a gentleman in As you like it

Transvestite As you like it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780230603318

0230603319

OCLC:

191703133