As You Like It (Vol. 90) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Belsey, Catherine. “Desire in the Golden World: Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It.” In Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture, pp. 27-54. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Argues that while As You Like It is structured like a fairy tale, the play also addresses ambivalent early modern cultural attitudes toward love, marriage, and family.

Brown, John Russell. “As You Like It.” In Shakespeare's Dramatic Style: Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, pp. 72-103. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.

Examines how Shakespeare used language to energize the complex dramatic action of As You Like It.

Brustein, Robert. “Ways to Please an Audience.” New Republic (4 October 1999): 35.

Contends that while Barry Edelstein's...

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