William Shakespeare – ‘As You Like It’

by Pierre Iselin, Francois Laroque and Jean-Marie Maguin

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Extent: 160 pages

Publisher: Klincksieck

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 1997)

ISBN: 9782864603139

Price: $16.00

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Shakespeare’s dramatic pastoral raises problems of its own, as the extreme artifice of its construction and style may rebuff a modern audience. Defined as a conversation play, As You Like It is also a motley play which insistently elaborates a discourse on the limits of representation and stylistic appropriation. The play certainly represents Shakespeare’s most faithful dramatic adaptation of a narrative source – hence the particular signifiance of such concepts as translation, citation, set speeches, (re)-writing, disguise, narrative and debate. This volume includes a study of the play’s context – Shakespearean and otherwise – essays and commentaries by three Shakespearean scholars, whose approach has mainly been the specific exercises of the agregation and CAPES (dissertation, commentaire de texte, lecon, explicaiton de texte).

  • By (author) Pierre Iselin
  • By (author) Francois Laroque
  • By (author) Jean-Marie Maguin