232 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the other, they... Read more
Introduction, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter; Chapter 1 Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Stranger Crisis of the Early 1590s, Eric Griffin; Chapter 2 “My hopes abroad”:, Geraldo U. de Sousa; Chapter 3 Hosting Language:, Kathryn Vomero Santos; Chapter 4 Fluellen’s Foreign Influence and the Ill Neighborhood of King Henry V, Ruben Espinosa; Chapter 5 “A noble troop of strangers”:, Bernadette Andrea; Chapter 6 “Boat People”:, Bindu Malieckal; Chapter 7 The Black Alien in Othello:, Imtiaz Habib; Chapter 8 Race Words in Othello, Peter Erickson; Chapter 9 Open Doors, Secure Borders:, Elizabeth Valdez Acosta; Chapter 10 Coda “And therefore as a stranger give it welcome”, David Ruiter;
Biography
Ruben Espinosa is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. David Ruiter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
'Shakespeare and Immigration has an explicit concern with an urgent contemporary sociopolitical issue. ... This book, with its wide range of reference, would be valuable to anyone interested in immigration, race, and other cross-cultural issues in the early modern period, from advanced undergraduate to experienced scholar, in history as well as literature. Some essays will challenge those who want to see Shakespeare as the genius who always takes the most progressive position, but that very challenge is part of what makes the book pedagogically useful as well as full of groundbreaking scholarship.' Renaissance Quarterly
