Download or read book Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 written by Jane Pettegree and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.