Shakespeare and hospitality : ethics, politics, and exchange / edited by David B. Goldstein and Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lupton, Julia Reinhard.

Contributor:

Goldstein, David B., 1972- editor.

Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 16.

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Social life and customs.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Hospitality in literature.

Manners and customs in literature.

Hospitality--History.

Hospitality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeare's time and our own. By reading Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objects—including almanacs, recipe books, husbandry manuals, and religious tracts — this book reimagines Shakespeare's playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting (rape and seduction, war and betrayal, enchantment and disenchantment) and the limits of generosity (how much can or should one give the guest, with what attitude or comportment, and under what circumstances?). This substantial volume maps the terrain of Shakespearean hospitality in its rich complexity, demonstrating the importance of historical, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I Oikos and Polis; 1 "Will You Walk in, My Lord?": Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and the Anxiety of Oikos; 2 A Digression to Hospitality: Thrift and Christmastime in Shakespeare and in the Literature of Husbandry; 3 "Here's Strange Alteration!": Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Political Discord in Coriolanus; Part II Economy and Ecology; 4 Hospitality's Risk, Grace's Bargain: Uncertain Economies in The Winter's Tale; 5 Hospitality in Anthony and Cleopatra; Part III Script; 6 Ave Desdemona

7 As You Like It and the Theater of Hospitality8 Hospitable Times with Shakespeare: A Reading of King Lear; Part IV Scripture; 9 "Her Father Loved Me, Oft Invited Me": Staging Shakespeare's Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers; 10 Hospitality in Twelfth Night: Playing at (the Limits of) Home; 11 Thinking Hospitably with Timon of Athens: Toward an Ethics of Stewardship; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 8, 2024).

ISBN:

1-317-63289-3

1-315-75734-6

1-317-63288-5

9781315757346

OCLC:

948337469