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As you like it /

As You Like It has sometimes seemed a subversive play that exposes the instability of gender roles and traditional values. In other eras it has been prized - or derided - as a reliable celebration of conventional social mores. The play's ability to compass these extremes tells an interesting st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Otros Autores: Marshall, Cynthia, 1953-2005
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare in production.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PRODUCTIONS; INTRODUCTION; Peculiarities of the play as a performance piece; Seventeenth century; Charles Johnson's 'Love in a Forest'; Eighteenth century: romping actresses and the struggle for decorum; Dora Jordan: 'spirit of enjoyment'; Into the nineteenth century: opera, spectacle, and a new Rosalind; Kemble's revisions; Macready's restorations; Helena Faucit: Rosalind 'ethereally embodied'; Charles Kean and the growth of pictorial staging.