The world's a stage : Shakespeare and the dramatic view of life /
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Bethesda, Md. :
Academica Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Shakespeare and the dramatic view of life
- The world as stage in The taming of the shrew
- What is the dream in A midsummer night's dream?
- 'I shall henceforth be myself' : Henry V, king of players or royal hypocrite?
- Rosalind as player-playwright in As you like it
- Tonight we improvise : Hamlet and the limits of playing
- If I ruled the world : Duke Vincentio plays God in Measure for measure
- Shakespeare's goodbye to the stage : The tempest and its afterlife
- Shakespeare's final ambiguity : the world is and is not a stage.