Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611
Subtitle: metaphor and national identity
By: Jane Pettegree
Series: Early modern literature in history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230293335
Subjects: English drama; National characteristics, English, in literature; History and criticism; Metaphor in literature; Dramatic production
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: metaphor and social subjectivity; title: 2. Alternative Cleopatras; title: Renaissance Cleopatras; title: English Cleopatra in the 1590s: the queen's body; title: Shakespeare's Cleopatra; title: 3. Kent and synecdochal native identity; title: Commonplace Kent; title: Rebellious Kent: the historical reiteration of opposition; title: Kent in Lear: personification and conflicted identity; title: 4. English Christendom: metonymy and metalepsis; title: Championing Christendom: current affairs, romance and epic; title: Jacobean Christendom; title: Cymbeline: on the edge of Christendom.