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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"--
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English drama, National characteristics, English, in literature, History and criticism, Metaphor in literature, Dramatic production, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, Nationalism in literature, Metaphor, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Metapher, Nationalbewusstsein, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, King LearShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611: metaphor and national identity
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230293336 9780230293335
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-231) and index.
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