Thomas McFarland (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: McFarland, Thomas. “For Other Than for Dancing Measures: The Complications of As You Like It.” In Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare's As You Like It, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 23-45. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1972, McFarland examines the tragic, cynical, and unpastoral elements in the otherwise comic As You Like It.]
To approach As You Like It immediately after Love's Labour's Lost and A...
Source: Shakespearean Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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