As If: Essays in As You Like It / William N. West.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020 ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 126 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?