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- Title
Reading Orlando Historically: Vagrancy, Forest, and Vestry Values in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- Authors
Fitter, Chris; Cerasano, S. P.
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented of the play "As You Like It," by the dramatist William Shakespeare. The author argues that it is a protest play with political implications and analyzes the character Orlando to prove this point regarding vagrancy. The plight of the poor in Great Britain at the end of the 1500s is considered as is the class snobbishness which the author identifies that existed in Great Britain.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; AS You Like It (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; POLITICAL theater; EARLY modern English drama -- History &; criticism; VAGRANCY in literature; POOR people in literature; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2010, Vol 23, p114
- ISSN
0731-3403
- Publication type
Literary Criticism