Premium Content Colliding Worlds: Green World Theory vs. Marxist Theory
By Erica Frank - August 04, 2003
Northrop Frye and C. L. Barber's "green world" and "misrule" theories are very much evident in William Shakespeare's As You Like It (ASYI). Frye discusses his "green world" theory in his books Anatomy of Criticism, in 1957, and A Natural Perspective, in 1965. In it, Frye describes a "normal" or court world, a "green world," and a changed court…
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