Jane Pettegree
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2011
9781349332779
Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Metaphor and National Identity
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2011
ISBN13: 9781349332779
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Early Modern Literature in History
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349332779
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
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