As You Like It (Vol. 34) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Bennett, Robert B. "The Reform of a Malcontent: Jaques and the Meaning of As You Like It." Shakespeare Studies IX (1976): 183-204.
Regards Jaques as an essentially benign character whose presence in Arden provides both a needed balance in the forest-court debate and a cynicism to counter the preciousness of the pastoral setting.
Brissenden, Alan. "The Dance in As You Like It and Twelfth Night." Cahiers Elisabethains Ho. 13 (April 1978): 25-34.
Examines Shakespeare's use of dance in As You Like It. Noticing the combination of joy and solemnity following the marriages in Act V, scene iv, Brissenden posits the likelihood of the couples dancing a patterned and harmonious pavan.
Brooks, Charles. "Shakespeare's Heroine-Actresses." Shakespeare Jahrbuch 60 (1960): 134-44.
Focuses on Rosalind's disguise role, and realates this device to Shakespeare's concern with themes of identity,...
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