As You Like It Critical Essays [Paperback]

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.

Critical Essays

Remarks on the Plays of Shakespeare, Charles Gildon* Love in a Forest, Charles Johnson* The Plays of William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson* The Dramatic Censor; or, Critical Companion, FrancisGentleman* Notes to As You Like It, Edward Capell * A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare, Walter Whiter* The Works of William Shakespeare, J. Payne Collier* Shakespeare Commentaries, Dr. G. G. Gervinus* Shakespeare's Dramatic Art, Hermann P. Ulrici* System of Shakespeare's Dramas, Denton J. Snider* Miss Grace Latham on Rosalind, Celia, and Helen,W. E. Henley* Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters, Helena Faucit, LadyMartin* Shakespeare's Heroines, Charles Wingate* William Shakespeare: A Critical Study, Georg Brandes* William Shakespeare, John Masefield* The Culminating Comedies, C. Herford* Shakespeare as a Playwright, Brander Matthews* Disguise Plots in Elizabethan Drama, Victor O. Freeburg* Shakespeare's Use of Song, RichmondNoble* The English Comic Characters, J. B. Priestley* Shakespeare andl3&