Katherine M. Playfair Quinsey

If Is the Only Peacemaker

Arts & Literature

“If Is the Only Peacemaker provides a seminal reassessment of the cultural and spiritual roots of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy As You Like It. Maillet’s . . . use of Shakespeare’s own contemporary tools of rhetoric to read the play allows for fascinating new light on such issues as gender and spirituality, while being itself a refreshing and celebratory experience.”