Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity / Jane Pettegree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettegree, Jane, 1966-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern literature in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Metaphor in literature.

National characteristics, English, in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

vii, 235 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230293335

0230293336

OCLC:

690086419