بیگانگان و بومی‌ها در صحنه انگلیسی، ۱۵۸۸-۱۶۱۱: استعاره و هویت ملی (ادبیات مدرن اولیه در تاریخ)

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. 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 1. Introduction: metaphor and social subjectivity 2. Alternative Cleopatras Renaissance Cleopatras English Cleopatra in the 1590s: the queen's body Shakespeare's Cleopatra 3. Kent and synecdochal native identity Commonplace Kent Rebellious Kent: the historical reiteration of opposition Kent in Lear: personification and conflicted identity 4. English Christendom: metonymy and metalepsis Championing Christendom: current affairs, romance and epic Jacobean Christendom Cymbeline: on the edge of Christendom.