As If: Essays in As You Like It

Shakespeare's As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an aspect of their world and see what comes of it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: West, William N., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2016
Baltimore, Maryland : 2020
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421035906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What happens in As You Like It
  • What is the play about?
  • What's in a name?
  • What happens when Rosalind dresses as a boy?
  • Where is Arden?
  • Why do we hear about what Jaques said to the deer?
  • What does Jaques telling us about Touchstone telling time tell us about them?
  • What is pastoral?
  • What does Jaques mean when he says, "All the world's a stage"?
  • Why does Touchstone say the truest poetry is the most faining? Or is it "feigning"?
  • What happens when Ganymede dresses as a girl?
  • What is love?
  • What is the virtue in "if"?
  • What happens in the epilogue?
  • The end?