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Jane Pettegree

Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611


Metaphor and National Identity
1st ed. 2011. 2011. vii, 235 S. 235 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN UK 2011
ISBN: 1-349-33277-1 (1349332771)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-349-33277-9 (9781349332779)

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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.
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
Shortlisted for the Shakespeare´s Globe First Book Award (2012).
JANE PETTEGREE Teaching Assistant in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her published works include ´Writing Christendom in the Renaissance´, in Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity (2010), and she is a regular contributor to the ABES online bibliography.