Title Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity / Jane Pettegree

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Early modern literature in history Early modern literature in history. 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 Metallepsis -- Championing Christendom: Current Affairs, Romance and Epic -- Jacobean Christendom -- Cymbeline: On the Edge of Christendom -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In this book Jane Pettegree explores how the dramatic embodiment of English national identity responded to a period of dynastic transition and rapid political and cultural change. Three detailed case studies look at Cleopatra as metaphor, Kent as synecdoche and Christendom as metonymy, contextualising these stage topographies using both contemporary texts and those drawn from older (classical and medieval) and non-native (continental European) traditions. This shines new light on canonical Shakespeare plays, respectively Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear and Cymbeline, illuminating how early modern English national identity could be experienced as simultaneously 'native' and 'foreign'. This wide-ranging approach acknowledges that collective and individual identities overlap and compete with one another: public identities may generate alternative representations; local identities may compete with the formulations of the nation state; national identities may struggle to accommodate regional spiritual identities "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production. SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Antony and Cleopatra. swd Cymbeline. swd King Lear. swd Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism Metaphor in literature. National characteristics, English, in literature. Shakespeare studies & criticism -- English. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Literature. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan Metaphor in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Theater Metapher Nationalbewusstsein England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230307797 0230307795

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