Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare - Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare's plays, situating them historically in order to fully explore Shakespeare's engagement with early modern views.

Sommario

Introduction
Chapter One. The Moor: Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Merchant of Venice
Chapter Two. A Pastoral Welcome: As You Like It and The Winter's Tale
Chapter Three. Jews and Friars: The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet
Chapter Four. Hosting Nobility: Macbeth and King Lear
Chapter Five. Roman Receptions: Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Cymbeline
Chapter Six. Welcoming Travellers: Pericles and The Tempest
Conclusion

Info autore

Joan Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, specializing in the historical and critical study of food in literature. She is author of A History of Food in Literature from the Fourteenth Century to the Present, co-authored with Charlotte Boyce (Routledge, 2017); Three Sixteenth Century Dietaries: A Critical Edition, Revels Companion Library; Shakespeare and the Language of Food: A Dictionary, Continuum/Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries; and Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays (Routledge, formerly Ashgate, 2007).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joan Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Joan
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367623340
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62334-0
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights