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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Shortlisted for the Shakespeare's Globe First Book Award (2012).

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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.

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Book Title: Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Book Subtitle: Metaphor and National Identity
Authors: Jane Pettegree
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307797
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29333-5Published: 28 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33277-9Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30779-7Published: 28 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 235
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Metaphor and Social Subjectivity

Alternative Cleopatras

Kent and Synecdochal Native Identity

English Christendom: Metonymy and Metalepsis

Conclusion

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