1st Edition

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays

By Joan Fitzpatrick Copyright 2025
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Hospitality to strangers has become an increasingly prevalent topic in recent years, from political upheavals resulting in the displacement of millions of people, to the emergence of our collective obligations towards strangers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet the vexed question of when to welcome or reject strangers is nothing new. In the context of an increasingly multicultural early modern... Read more

 

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

Biography

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).