One of the best loved of Shakespeare's 'middle comedies', As You Like It has rarely been out of the theatrical repertoire.

She re reads the novels in the light of this dialogue to demonstrate Austen's analysis of the pervasive theatricality of the society in which her heroines must perform.

Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage.

In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these ...

This book aims to open up a range of possibilities for reading and staging Macbeth, rather than pursuing exhaustively or exclusively one approach.