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metaphor and national identity

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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 topographies"--

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
235

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Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611: metaphor and national identity
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: metaphor and social subjectivity
2. Alternative Cleopatras
Renaissance Cleopatras
English Cleopatra in the 1590s: the queen's body
Shakespeare's Cleopatra
3. Kent and synecdochal native identity
Commonplace Kent
Rebellious Kent: the historical reiteration of opposition
Kent in Lear: personification and conflicted identity
4. English Christendom: metonymy and metalepsis
Championing Christendom: current affairs, romance and epic
Jacobean Christendom
Cymbeline: on the edge of Christendom.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-231) and index.

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
Series
Early modern literature in history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.309
Library of Congress
PR658.M56 P48 2011, PN1010-PN1551PN715-P

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 235 p. ;
Number of pages
235

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25077099M
Internet Archive
foreignnativeone00pett
ISBN 13
9780230293335
LCCN
2011004155
OCLC/WorldCat
690086419

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