Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611

Metaphor and National Identity

Jane Pettegree (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

235 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-29333-5 (ISBN)

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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.

JANE PETTEGREE Teaching Assistant in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her published works include 'Writing Christendom in the Renaissance', in Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity (2010), and she is a regular contributor to the ABES online bibliography.

Introduction: Metaphor and Social Subjectivity PART I: ALTERNATIVE CLEOPATRAS Renaissance Cleopatras English Cleopatra in the 1590s: The Queen's Body Shakespeare's Cleopatra PART II: KENT AND SYNECDOCHAL NATIVE IDENTITY Commonplace Kent Rebellious Kent: Historical Reiteration of Opposition Kent in Lear : Personification and Conflicted Identity PART III: ENGLISH CHRISTENDOM: METONYMY AND METALEPSIS Championing Christendom: Current Affairs, Romance and Epic Jacobean Christendom Cymbeline : On the Edge of Christendom Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2011
Reihe/Serie	Early Modern Literature in History
Zusatzinfo	VII, 235 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-230-29333-6 / 0230293336
ISBN-13	978-0-230-29333-5 / 9780230293335
Zustand	Neuware