CRITICISM

Dusinberre, Juliet. “As Who Liked It?” Shakespeare Survey 46 (1993): 9-21.

Discusses the influence of Elizabethan politics on the depiction of Rosalind and the presentation of gender roles.

Harley, Marta Powell. “Rosalind, the Hare, and the Hyena in Shakespeare's As You Like It.” Shakespeare Quarterly 36, No. 3 (Autumn 1985): 335-37.

Argues that Rosalind establishes her complex sexual nature partially through the use of animal imagery.

Kott, Jan. “The Gender of Rosalind.” New Theatre Quarterly 7, No. 26 (May 1991): 113-25.

Compares Shakespeare's portrayal of gender in As You Like It and Twelfth Nightwith other works of literature.

Lifson, Martha Ronk. “Learning by Talking: Conversation in As You Like It.” Shakespeare Survey 40 (1988): 91-105.

Considers Shakespeare's use of suppositions in an analysis of the complexities of conversation and sexuality between the play's principal characters.

Marshall, Cynthia. “The Doubled Jaques and Constructions of Negation in As You Like It.” Shakespeare Quarterly 49, No. 4 (Winter 1998): 375-92.

Examines the play's structure using the psychoanalytic concept of negation.

Schleiner, Louise. “Voice, Ideology, and Gendered Subjects: The Case of As You Like It and Two Gentlemen.” Shakespeare Quarterly 50, No. 3 (Fall 1999): 285-309.

Proposes a relationship between gender and ideology in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Two Gentlemen.

Shapiro, Michael. “Layers of Disguise: As You Like It.” In Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages, pp. 119-42. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Compares Shakespeare's use of cross-gender disguise in As You Like It with the use of similar techniques in plays by Heywood, Chapman, and Middleton.

Soule, Lesley Anne. ‘Subverting Rosalind: Cocky Ros in the Forest of Arden.” New Theatre Quarterly 7, No. 26 (May 1991): 126-36.

Considers the influence of Elizabethan popular theater on Shakespeare's treatment of androgyny and gender.

Stanton, Kay. “Remembering Patriarchy in As You Like It.” In Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, edited by Ronald Dotterer, pp. 139-49. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1989.

Studies the relationship between power, gender, and memory in As You Like It.

Stirm, Jan. “‘For solace a twinne-like sister’: Teaching Themes of Sisterhood in As You Like It and Beyond.” Shakespeare Quarterly 47, No. 4, (Winter 1996): 374-86.

Argues that focusing on sisterhood enables students to consider the lives of women apart from their relationships to men and to question assumptions about social and family relationships.

Tiffany, Grace. “‘That Reason Wonder May Diminish’: As You Like It, Androgyny, and the Theater Wars.” Huntington Library Quarterly 57, No. 3 (Summer 1994): 213-39.

Considers unique elements in Shakespeare's vision of the comedy genre in the context of the “Poet Wars” of 1600.

Wilson, Richard. “‘Like the Old Robin Hood’: As You Like It and the Enclosure Riots.” Shakespeare Quarterly 43, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 1-19.

Considers Shakespeare's condemnation of the Enclosure Act.