{"title":"Satire and the Aesthetic in As You Like It","authors":"T. Samuk","doi":"10.1086/683106","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"a s You Like It is a play in search of a future. At the same time, it is also a deeply nostalgic play. Some critics have celebrated what they see as its striving for ideological balance and resistance to social change. Recent readings have tended to be more progressive, seeing the play as a response to unjust laws, a critique of gender and sexuality, or as an exploration of humanity’s relationship with the environment. One constant in the scholar-","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"43 1","pages":"117 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/683106","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Renaissance Drama","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/683106","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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a s You Like It is a play in search of a future. At the same time, it is also a deeply nostalgic play. Some critics have celebrated what they see as its striving for ideological balance and resistance to social change. Recent readings have tended to be more progressive, seeing the play as a response to unjust laws, a critique of gender and sexuality, or as an exploration of humanity’s relationship with the environment. One constant in the scholar-