Further Reading
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Problems Arising from the ‘Great Reckoning in a Little Room’—As You Like It III.iii.” Classical and Modern Literature 20, no. 4 (fall 2000): 91-7.
Explicates a puzzling passage in Act III, scene iii of As You Like It as a lament for the audience's failure to comprehend poetry.
Fitter, Chris. “The Slain Deer and Political Imperium: As You Like It and Andrew Marvell's ‘Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn.’” JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98, no. 2 (April 1999): 193-218.
Suggests an analogical link between political tyranny and the aristocratic pastime of deer hunting in the metaphors of As You Like It and Marvell's poem “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn.”
Gates, Anita. Review of As You Like It. New York Times (29 July 2002): E4.
Generally favorable review of director Jeff Cohen's contemporary, hip-hop interpretation of As You Like It performed at the TriBeCa Playhouse in 2002.
Latham, Agnes. “Satirists, Fools, and Clowns.” In Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It: A Casebook, edited by John Russell Brown, pp. 207-17. London: Macmillan, 1979.
Surveys the comic figures in As You Like It—Jaques, Touchstone, William, and Audrey—and probes potential sources for these characters.
Maurer, Margaret. “Facing the Music in Arden: ‘'Twas I, But 'Tis Not I.’” In As You Like It From 1600 to the Present: Critical Essays, edited by Edward Tomarken, pp. 475-509. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997.
Considers As You Like It in relation to Charles Johnson's 1723 theatrical adaptation of the drama entitled Love in a Forest and explores the motif of personal metamorphosis in Shakespeare's play.
Rothwell, Kenneth S. “Shakespeare Goes Digital.” Cineaste 25, no. 3 (June 2000): 50-2.
Includes a brief review of the digitally re-mastered 1936 film adaptation of As You Like It, directed by Paul Czinner and starring Laurence Olivier and Elisabeth Bergner, in which Rothwell admires the performance of Bergner in the role of Rosalind.
Sedinger, Tracey. “‘If sight and shape be true’: The Epistemology of Crossdressing on the London Stage.” Shakespeare Quarterly 48, no. 1 (spring 1997): 63-79.
Explores the relationship between sixteenth-century antitheatricalism and anxieties over sodomy and homoeroticism in regard to As You Like It by focusing on the drama's preoccupation with crossdressing.
Shaw, John. “Fortune and Nature in As You Like It.” Shakespeare Quarterly 6, no. 1 (winter 1955): 45-50.
Highlights the Renaissance conception of a conflict between the gifts of Nature—such as virtue, strength, courage, and wisdom—and the more capricious offerings of Fortune as a structural principal in As You Like It.
Strout, Nathaniel. “As You Like It, Rosalynde, and Mutuality.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41, no. 2 (spring 2001): 277-95.
Contrasts the male-centeredness of Shakespeare's source-text, Thomas Lodge's 1590 romance Rosalynde, with the gender mutuality of As You Like It.
Wilson, Richard. “‘Like the Old Robin Hood’: As You Like It and the Enclosure Riots.” Shakespeare Quarterly 43, no. 1 (spring 1992): 1-19.
Topical evaluation of As You Like It that relates the drama to the disruptive social period of 1590s England.
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