Table Of ContentEarlyModernLiteratureinHistory
GeneralEditors:CedricC.Brown,ProfessorofEnglishandDeanoftheFacultyofArtsand
Humanities, University of Reading; Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of
Sussex,Brighton
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Maryland;JeanHoward,UniversityofColumbia;JohnKerrigan,UniversityofCambridge;
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Withintheperiod1520–1740thisseriesdiscussesmanykindsofwriting,bothwithinand
outsidetheestablishedcanon.Thevolumesmayemploydifferenttheoreticalperspectives,
buttheyshareahistoricalawarenessandaninterestinseeingtheirtextsinlivelynegotiation
withtheirownandsuccessivecultures.
Titlesinclude:
RobynAdamsandRosannaCox
DIPLOMACYANDEARLYMODERNCULTURE
JohnM.Adrian
LOCALNEGOTIATIONSOFENGLISHNATIONHOOD,1570–1680
AndreaBrady
ENGLISHFUNERARYELEGYINTHESEVENTEENTHCENTURY
LawsinMourning
JocelynCatty
WRITINGRAPE,WRITINGWOMENINEARLYMODERNENGLAND
UnbridledSpeech
PatrickCheney
MARLOWE’SREPUBLICANAUTHORSHIP
Lucan,Liberty,andtheSublime
DavidColeman
DRAMAANDTHESACRAMENTSINSIXTEENTH-CENTURYENGLAND
IndelibleCharacters
KatharineA.Craik
READINGSENSATIONSINEARLYMODERNENGLAND
BruceDanner
EDMUNDSPENSER’SWARONLORDBURGHLEY
JamesDaybell(editor)
EARLYMODERNWOMEN’SLETTER-WRITING,1450–1700
JamesDaybellandPeterHinds(editors)
MATERIALREADINGSOFEARLYMODERNCULTURE
TextsandSocialPractices,1580–1730
MatthewDimmockandAndrewHadfield(editors)
THERELIGIONSOFTHEBOOK
ChristianPerceptions,1400–1660
TobiasDöring
PERFORMANCESOFMOURNINGINSHAKESPEAREANTHEATREANDEARLY
MODERNCULTURE
MariaFranziskaFahey
METAPHORANDSHAKESPEAREANDRAMA
UnchasteSignification
MaryFloyd-WilsonandGarrettA.SullivanJr.(editors)
ENVIRONMENTANDEMBODIMENTINEARLYMODERNENGLAND
KennethJ.E.GrahamandPhilipD.Collington(editors)
SHAKESPEAREANDRELIGIOUSCHANGE
TeresaGrantandBarbaraRavelhofer
ENGLISHHISTORICALDRAMA,1500–1660
FormsOutsidetheCanon
JohannaHarrisandElizabethScott-Baumann(editors)
THEINTELLECTUALCULTUREOFPURITANWOMEN,1558–1680
ConstanceJordanandKarenCunningham(editors)
THELAWINSHAKESPEARE
ClaireJowitt(editor)
PIRATES?THEPOLITICSOFPLUNDER,1550–1650
GregoryKneidel
RETHINKINGTHETURNTORELIGIONINEARLYMODERNENGLISHLITERATURE
EdelLamb
PERFORMINGCHILDHOODINTHEEARLYMODERNTHEATRE
TheChildren’sPlayingCompanies(1599–1613)
KatherineR.Larson
EARLYMODERNWOMENINCONVERSATION
Jean-ChristopherMayer
SHAKESPEARE’SHYBRIDFAITH
History,ReligionandtheStage
ScottL.Newstok
QUOTINGDEATHINEARLYMODERNENGLAND
ThePoeticsofEpitaphsBeyondtheTomb
JanePettegree
FOREIGNANDNATIVEONTHEENGLISHSTAGE,1588–1611
MetaphorandNationalIdentity
FredSchurink(editor)
TUDORTRANSLATION
AdrianStreete(editor)
EARLYMODERNDRAMAANDTHEBIBLE
ContextsandReadings,1570–1625
MarionWynne-Davies
WOMENWRITERSANDFAMILIALDISCOURSEINTHEENGLISHRENAISSANCE
RelativeValues
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Metaphor and
Shakespearean Drama
Unchaste Signification
Maria Franziska Fahey
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1. Shakespeare,William,1564–1616—Criticism,Textual. 2. Metaphor
inliterature. 3. Englishlanguage—Earlymodern,1500–1700—
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Itmakesadifferencewhetherthedawniscalled“rosy-fingered”
or“purple-fingered.”
(Aristotle,OnRhetoric)
Contents
Figure x
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiv
1 “UnchasteSignification”:Classical,Elizabethan,and
ContemporaryTheoriesofMetaphor 1
2 ProvingDesdemonaHaggard:MetaphorandMarriagein
Othello 22
3 “MartyredSigns”:SacrificeandMetaphorinTitus
Andronicus 49
4 ImperfectSpeech:EquivocationandMetaphorinMacbeth 74
5 “BaseComparisons”:FiguringRoyaltyinKingHenryIV
Part1 115
6 “EarsofFleshandBlood”:DeadMetaphorsandGhostly
FiguresinHamlet 139
7 “StrangeFish”:TransportandTranslationinTheTempest 159
WorksCited 177
Index 187
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