Shakespeare’s As You Like It : Late Elizabethan Culture and Literary Representation

This Book Is A Study Of As You Like It, Which Shows How The Play Represents Issues Of Interest To Literate Playgoers Of Its Time, As Well As Speculatively To Shakespeare Himself. Wrestling For Temperance: As You Like It And The Faerie Queene, Book 2 -- Kairos And The Ripeness Of Time In As You Like It -- Words And Deeds In As You Like It -- As You Like It And The Warwickshire Of Shakespeare's Mind -- Becoming A Gentleman In As You Like It -- Transvestite As You Like It. Maurice A. Hunt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [149]-202) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Introduction: Late Elizabethan As You Like It......Page 10 One: Wrestling for Temperance: As You Like It and The Faerie Queene, Book 2......Page 16 Two: Kairos and the Ripeness of Time in As You Like It......Page 34 Three: Words and Deeds in As You Like It......Page 60 Four: As You Like It and the “Warwickshire” of Shakespeare’s Mind......Page 86 Five: Becoming a Gentleman in As You Like It......Page 114 Six: Transvestite As You Like It......Page 142 Notes......Page 158 Works Cited......Page 200 C......Page 212 G......Page 213 M......Page 214 S......Page 215 W......Page 216 "The first ever book-length study of the popular Shakespearean comedy As You Like It, Hunt demonstrates how the play represented issues of interest to playgoers at the time the play was written, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Utilizing six different contemporary perspectives ranging from ideas of the gentleman to Judeo-Christian conceptions, Hunt enables a better understanding of the play's original contexts of performance and interpretation."--Jacket