As You Like It: The Oxford Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-953615-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling
student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shakespeare, William

Brissenden, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Brissenden is Reader in English, University of Adelaide, Australia.