ABSTRACT

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It. Twenty-six major essays on the play, including several written especially for this volume highlight the work, coupled with twenty-three reviews of various productions, ranging from 1741 to 1919. Edward Tomarken edited this valuable collection with a contents that includes pieces by Samuel Johnson, Charles Gildon, J. Payne Collier, Denton J. Snider, Charles Wingate, Victor O. Freeburg, J.B. Priestly, Cumberland Clark, Margaret Maurer and others.

part I

As You Like It from 1600 to the Present

part II|432 pages

Critical Essays

chapter |52 pages

Love in a Forest

chapter |16 pages

Notes to as You Like It

chapter |17 pages

Shakespeare Commentaries

chapter |9 pages

Shakspeare's Dramatic Art

chapter |16 pages

Shakespeare's Heroines

chapter |2 pages

William Shakespeare

chapter |2 pages

The Culminating Comedies

chapter |7 pages

Shakspere as a Playwright

chapter |6 pages

Shakespeare's Use of Song

chapter |12 pages

The English Comic Characters

chapter |4 pages

Shakespeare's Way

chapter |2 pages

Shakespeare and Psychology

part III|136 pages

Reviews

chapter |2 pages

The Gentleman's Magazine

chapter |1 pages

The Times

chapter |1 pages

London Gazette

chapter |1 pages

The Times

chapter |1 pages

The Times

chapter |2 pages

The Times

chapter |2 pages

The Times

chapter |1 pages

The Athenaeum

chapter |10 pages

Shaw on Shakespear

chapter |8 pages

The Stage Shakespeàre

chapter |1 pages

The Story of My Life

chapter |2 pages

The Times

chapter |3 pages

A Definition of Arden

chapter |7 pages

Players of Shakespeare

chapter |10 pages

Watching Shakespeare

chapter |5 pages

On Directing Shakespeare

chapter |4 pages

The Televised Shakespeare Canon