As You Like It

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bamber, Linda. Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.

Berry, Ralph. Shakespeare’s Comic Rites. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Carroll, William C. The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.

Halio, Jay L. Twentieth Century Interpretations of As You Like It: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968.

Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love. London: Methuen, 1974.

Wheeler, Richard. Shakespeare’s Development and the Problem Comedies: Turn and Counter-Turn. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981.

Young, David. The Heart’s Forest: A Study of Shakespeare’s Pastoral Plays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

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