What challenges does As You Like It present to out conceptions of gender identity?

Present day conceptions of gender would appear to be different to what they were in Shakespeare's day. Clear cut divisions of male, female and neuter are apparent. One would need to look back to the time of Shakespeare to try and see the different view of gender identity. Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be …

…modern day views on gender. Word count: 1370. BIBLIOGRAPHY. PRIMARY TEXTS. Stephen Greenblatt, ed., The Norton Shakespeare (New York: W.W.Norton & Company Ltd. 1997). Stanley Wells, ed., Shakespeare Survey 46 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Victor L. Cahn, Shakespeare the Playwright (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991). Mario DiGangi, 'Queering the Shakespearean Family', Shakespeare Quarterly 47(Autumn 1996). SECONDARY TEXTS. Brown, Ivor, Shakespeare (London: Charles Birchall and sons Ltd, 1951). Foakes, R.A, ed., Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare (London: The Athlone Press, 1989).