| Description |
xii, 256 pages ; 25 cm |
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Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages |
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Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.
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| Contents |
Series introduction -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of As You Like It -- Key passages in As You LIke It -- List of characters in As You Like It -- Criticism through the ages -- As You Like It in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- "The argument of As You Like It," from The works of Mr. William Shakespear / Nicholas Rowe 1709 -- "Remarks on the plays of Shakespear" / Charles Gildon 1710 -- As You Like It (notes) from The plays of William Shakespeare 1765 / Samuel Johnson -- "Introduction," from his edition of As You Like It / Edward Capell 1767 -- "On the melancholy Jaques," from Philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters / William Richardson 1788 -- |
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As You Like It in the nineteenth century -- "Criticisms on Shakspeare's comedies," from Lectures on dramatic art and literature / August Wilhelm Schlegel 1809 -- "As You Like It," from Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt 1817 -- "Rosalind," from Characteristics of women : moral, poetical, & historical / Anna Jameson 1833 -- "As You Like I," from Shakspeare's dramatic art / Hermann Ulrici 1839 -- "Jaques," from Shakespeare papers / William Maginn 1856 -- "As You Like It," from Shakespeare-characters : chiefly those subordinate / Charles Cowden Clarke 1863 -- "Rosalind," from Shakespeare's female characters / Helena Faucit / Lady Martin -- "How 'As You LIke It' presents varied forms of humor in conflict with a single conventionality," from Shakespeare as a dramatic artist : a popular illustration of the principles of scientific criticism / Richard G. Moulton 1893 -- "As You Like It : critical remarks," from The works of William Shakespeare / A. Wilson Verity 1894 -- "Toujours Shakespeare," from Dramatic opinions and essays with an apology by Bernard Shaw / Beroge Bernard Shaw 1896 -- "'As You Like It,'" from William Shakespeare : a critical study / Georg Brandes 1898 -- |
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As You Like it in the twentieth century -- "The repetition of Rosalind," from Chesterton on Shakespeare / G.K. Chesterton 1932 -- "As You Like It,' from Lectures on Shakespeare / W.H. Auden 1947 -- "As You Like It," from The meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951 -- "As You Like It," from Shakespeare survey / Harold Jenkins 1955 -- "The alliance of seriousness and levity in As You Like It," from Shakespeare's festive comedy / C.L. Barber 1959 -- "For other than for dancing measures : the complications of As You Like It," from Shakespeare's pastoral comedy / Thomas McFarland 1972 -- "'The place of a brother' in 'As You Like It' : social process and comic form," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Louis Adrian Montrose 1981 -- "Introduction," from As You Like It / Harold Bloom 1988 -- "Introduction," from Rosalind / Harold Bloom 1992 -- |
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As You Like It in the twenty-first century -- "The charm of As You Like It," from Shakespeare : seven tragedies revisited : the dramatist's manipulation of response / E.A.J. Honigmann 2002 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Summary |
Shakespeare's romantic comedy, "As You Like It" sets up a number of dualities that are explored but never answered, exposing the complex relationships that exist between romance and realism, nobleman and commoner, and male and female. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the ce nturies on "As You Like It", as well as a biography of Shakespeare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it.
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Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
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Exiles -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Pastoral drama.
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Comedies.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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Loos, Pamela.
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| LC no. |
2007026810 |
| ISBN |
0791095916 acid-free paper |
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9780791095911 acidfree paper |
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