Shakespeare and Hospitality - Bog

Visiting scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering, this volume focuses on hospitality in Shakespeare¿s work, demonstrating how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeare¿s and our time. By reading the plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objects, this book reimagines Shakespeare¿s playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting and the limits of generosity, demonstrating the importance of historicist, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject.