Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity /
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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Early modern literature in history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: metaphor and social subjectivity
- Pt. 1. Alternative Cleopatras
- Renaissance Cleopatras
- English Cleopatra in the 1590s: the queen's body
- Shakespeare's Cleopatra
- Pt. 2. Kent and synecdochal native identity
- Commonplace Kent
- Rebellious Kent: historical reiteration of opposition
- Kent in Lear: personification and conflicted identity
- Pt. 3. English Christendom: metonymy and metalepsis
- Championing Christendom: current affairs, romance and epic
- Jacobean Christendom
- Cymbeline: on the edge of Christendom.