Screen LibraryForeign 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 spir...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Early modern literature in history
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307797 |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230293335, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 248 p. |
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9780230293335 9780230307797 : 0230307795 : |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: | 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. |