Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange

ISBN-13: 9780367870577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Julia Lupton; David Goldstein

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction David B. Goldstein and Julia Reinhard Lupton  Section One: Oikos and Polis  Chapter 1 ‘Will you walk in, my lord?’: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and the Anxiety of Oikos Andrew Hiscock  Chapter 2 A Digression to Hospitality: Thrift and Christmastime in Shakespeare and in the Literature of Husbandry Jessica Rosenberg  Chapter 3 "Here’s Strange Alteration!": Hospitality, Sovereignty And Political Discord In Coriolanus Thomas P. Anderson  Section Two: Economy and Ecology  Chapter 4 Hospitality’s Risk, Grace’s Bargain: Uncertain Economies in The Winter’s Tale James Kearney  Chapter 5 Hospitality in Anthony and Cleopatra Sean Lawrence  Section Three: Script  Chapter 6 Ave Desdemona David Hillman  Chapter 7 As You Like It and the Theater of Hospitality James Kuzner  Chapter 8 Hospitable Times with Shakespeare: A Reading of King Lear Thomas J. Moretti  Section Four: Scripture  Chapter 9 "Her father loved me, oft invited me": Staging Shakespeare’s Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers Sheiba Kian Kaufman  Chapter 10 Hospitality in Twelfth Night: Playing at (the Limits of) Home Joan Pong Linton  Chapter 11 Thinking Hospitably with Timon of Athens: Toward an Ethics of Stewardship Michael Noschka

O autorze

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

David B. Goldstein is Associate Professor of English at York University, Canada.