Titlebook: Shakespeare’s As You Like It; Late Elizabethan Cul Maurice A. Hunt Book 2008 Maurice A. Hunt 2008 culture.literature.play.time.William Shak

Expediency

GRUEL

Becoming a Gentleman in ,l English social event, or events, involving moral gentility in the years 1598 and 1599. Still, Hamlet complains in a 1599 or 1600 play that “the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe” (5.1.139–41), that the latest Elizabethan tim

熄灭

Words and Deeds in ,we speake let vs thinke; let our speeche accorde with our life,” Thomas Nashe wrote in . (1589). According to Thomas McAlindon, Nashe’s pronouncement.A dialectic of words and deeds informs ., but not as a phenomenon represented in condensed balanced form from act 1 onward.

Innocence

Anal-Canal

refine

and the Ripeness of Time in ,s includes at least one theophany, or appearance, of a Classical deity, respectively Diana, Jupiter, and Iris, Ceres, and Juno (all three played by Prospero’s magical spirits). With the exceptions of . and ., with their ghosts and . witches, the only Shakespeare play between . and the later Jacobean

locus-ceruleus

Words and Deeds in ,is said but little performed in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy.. Nevertheless (as is generally true in Shakespeare’s plays), characters’ deeds play as crucial a role as words in creating the relatively joyous end of this pastoral comedy; in fact, during the masque of Hymen, words and deeds achieve a

Valves

, and the “Warwickshire” of Shakespeare’s Mind,aygoer. I have called such generally accessible meanings public, for want of a better term. In this and the following chapter, I describe some private meanings of the play—meanings, that is to say, referring to a hypothesized private life of the late Elizabethan dramatist William Shakespeare and som

mediocrity

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