Myth and Type in As You Like It
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16007465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Paul Knowles (corresponding author), Richard Knowles (0000-0002-6018-0838) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Publication date | 1966-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2872131 |
| OpenAlex | W2329338377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
If many a careful scholar still hesitates to accept mythical readings of Shakespeare, it is largely because up to now there have been few studies in the middle range between theoretical interpretations on the one hand and historical fact on the other. One has had to be content. with the best of either world but seldom of both. Drawing on anthropological and psychological theories, Northrop Frye makes illuminating, even dazzling analogies between certain archetypal patterns and the structure of the plays and poems, but he offers no full explanation of how such analogous forms got into the Shakespeare canon;' Douglas Bush, bringing to bear a thorough historical knowledge of Elizabethan familiarity with Greek and Roman myths, shows the local applicability of Shakespeare's mythological allusions but not their relationship to an overall mythical pattern in play or poem.2 On the whole, mythic and ritual interpretations by Knight, Traversi, Tillyard, Barber, and others neglect the specific mythological allusions, while detailed studies of the allusions usually attempt to show the extent of Shakespeare's learning or to read the plays as topical
Art · Literature · Mythology · Type (biology · Geology · History · Paleontology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2009 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |