Love's Victory, pastoral, gender, and As You Like It

Title: Love's Victory, pastoral, gender, and As You Like It
Creator: Salzman, Paul
Relation: Mary Wroth and Shakespeare p. 103-112
Relation: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare 11
Relation: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317655695
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: In this essay I want to explore the exact nature of pastoral in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory through a comparison with As You Like It. I am not arguing that Shakespeare's play had any direct influence on Wroth, but I want to posit a rewriting of certain pastoral attitudes toward gender roles in Wroth's play, and this rewriting becomes clearer when As You Like It can stand as a touchstone for a number of pastoral themes. Like all examples of the pastoral, Love's Victory is extremely self-conscious about the genre itself and forms part of Wroth's complex engagement with the work of her uncle Philip Sidney, whose pastoral writing is already conscious of a certain belatedness-although it could be argued that pastoral always has a sense of belatedness (see Alphers 1997, ch. 2).
Subject: Mary Wroth; Shakespeare; pastoral; gender
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354072
Identifier: uon:31196
Identifier: ISBN:9781317655695
Language: eng

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