Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 [electronic resource] : Metaphor and National Identity /
Pettegree, Jane.author.
This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline - to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Metaphor and Social Subjectivity -- PART I: ALTERNATIVE CLEOPATRAS -- Renaissance Cleopatras -- English Cleopatra in the 1590s: The Queen's Body -- Shakespeare's Cleopatra -- PART II: KENT AND SYNECDOCHAL NATIVE IDENTITY -- Commonplace Kent -- Rebellious Kent: Historical Reiteration of Opposition -- Kent in Lear: Personification and Conflicted Identity -- PART III: ENGLISH CHRISTENDOM: METONYMY AND METALEPSIS -- Championing Christendom: Current Affairs, Romance and Epic -- Jacobean Christendom -- Cymbeline: On the Edge of Christendom -- Bibliography -- Index.
This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline - to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Theater-History.
British literature.
Great Britain-History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.