As You Like It: A Guide to the Play
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
As You Like It: A Guide to the Play
By (Author) Stephen Lynch
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th September 2003
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
822.33
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
Shakespeare may have written "As You Like It" in response to the popularity of Robin Hood plays in the late 1590s. Though his play draws on such works as Thomas Lodge's "Rosalynde" it continues to entertain audiences some 400 years after it was written. This reference is a comprehensive guide to the play. Beginning with a discussion of the play's textual history, the guide then analyses its various contexts and sources of influence. The play's dramatic structure is examined, a detailed plot summary is offered, and the play's major themes, along with an overview of major critical approaches to the work, are discussed. The volume also surveys major productions of "As You Like It" from the 16th through the 20th century.
Author Bio
STEPHEN J. LYNCH is Professor of English at Providence College. His previous books include Shakespearean Intertextuality (Greenwood, 1998). He has also published articles on Shakespeare in Shakespeare Studies, Philological Quarterly, mediaevalia, The Upstart Crow, and South Atlantic Review.
