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

Folger bibliographic ID: 247097
Folger call number: PR658.M56 P48 2011
Folger holdings ID: 318637

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

English drama Metaphor in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline King Lear Metapher Nationalbewusstsein England

author: Pettegree, Jane, 1966-
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616