Description
With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates 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 the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period."This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
About the Author
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Juliet Dusinberre is a Life Fellow in the Faculty of English at Girton College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Reviews
'An Arden editor must present an overview of the play's criticism [and] must also take into account the play's ongoing dissemination through performance on stage and screen. Despite these arduous demands, Dusinberre's edition, with its editorial apparatus, its substantial introduction (142 pages), its notes, and its various appendices, fulfills the above requirements admirably...Dusinberre addresses a theatre history that bears witness to the impact that various social movements, especially feminism and gay/lesbian (and now queer) activism, have had on the performance of one of Shakespeare's most gender-bending plays...It inscribes the feminist, queer, and historicist criticism of the past thirty years into the historical memory of Shakespeare studies.' * Shakespeare Quarterly *
'If As you Like It is rich in human feeing, a highly conceptualised Tempest seems to exist in the threshold between walking and dreaming.' * Claire Allfree, Metro, 25.6.10 *
'This is one of Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedies, an ironic fairy tale of love and sex, sincerity and pretension, betrayal and loyalty.' * John Peter, Sunday Times, 3.10.10 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781904271222
Author William Shakespeare
Format Paperback
Page Count 472
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 464g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm
About the Author
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Juliet Dusinberre is a Life Fellow in the Faculty of English at Girton College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Reviews
'An Arden editor must present an overview of the play's criticism [and] must also take into account the play's ongoing dissemination through performance on stage and screen. Despite these arduous demands, Dusinberre's edition, with its editorial apparatus, its substantial introduction (142 pages), its notes, and its various appendices, fulfills the above requirements admirably...Dusinberre addresses a theatre history that bears witness to the impact that various social movements, especially feminism and gay/lesbian (and now queer) activism, have had on the performance of one of Shakespeare's most gender-bending plays...It inscribes the feminist, queer, and historicist criticism of the past thirty years into the historical memory of Shakespeare studies.' * Shakespeare Quarterly *
'If As you Like It is rich in human feeing, a highly conceptualised Tempest seems to exist in the threshold between walking and dreaming.' * Claire Allfree, Metro, 25.6.10 *
'This is one of Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedies, an ironic fairy tale of love and sex, sincerity and pretension, betrayal and loyalty.' * John Peter, Sunday Times, 3.10.10 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781904271222
Author William Shakespeare
Format Paperback
Page Count 472
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 464g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm
