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Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity
- Title
- Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity / Jane Pettegree.
- Author
- Pettegree, Jane, 1966-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 235 p.; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Early modern literature in history
- Uniform Title
- Early modern literature in history.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Dramatic production
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- Metaphor in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-2365
- ISBN
- 9780230293335 (hardback)
- 0230293336 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011004155
- OCLC
- YBP 2011004155
- Author
- Pettegree, Jane, 1966-
- Title
- Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity / Jane Pettegree.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Series
- Early modern literature in historyEarly modern literature in history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-2365