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...
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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. "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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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Editions of Shakespeare used; 1 Introduction: Metaphor and Social Subjectivity; 2 Alternative Cleopatras; 3 Kent and Synecdochal Native Identity; 4 English Christendom: Metonymy and Metalepsis; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
