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.

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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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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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