| William Shakespeare - 'as You Like It' Contributor(s): Iselin, Pierre (Author), Laroque, Francois (Author), Maguin, Jean-Marie (Author) |
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ISBN: 2864603136 ISBN-13: 9782864603139 Publisher: Klincksieck OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Physical Information: 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |