Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange / Edition 1

by Julia Lupton, David Goldstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367870577
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/10/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction David B. Goldstein Julia Reinhard Lupton 1

Part I Oikos and Polis

1 "Will You Walk in, My Lord?": Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and the Anxiety of Oikos Andrew Hiscock 17

2 A Digression to Hospitality: Thrift and Christmastime in Shakespeare and in the Literature of Husbandry Jessica Rosenberg 39

3 "Here's Strange Alteration!": Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Political Discord in Coriolanus Thomas P. Anderson 67

Part II Economy and Ecology

4 Hospitality's Risk, Grace's Bargain: Uncertain Economies in The Winter's Tale James Kearney 89

5 Hospitality in Anthony and Cleopatra Sean Lawrence 112

Part III Script

6 Ave Desdemona David Hillman 133

7 As You Like It and the Theater of Hospitality James Kuzner 157

8 Hospitable Times with Shakespeare: A Reading of King Lear Thomas J. Moretti 174

Part IV Scripture

9 "Her Father Loved Me, Oft Invited Me": Staging Shakespeare's Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers Sheiba Kian Kaufman 197

10 Hospitality in Twelfth Night: Playing at (the Limits of) Home Joan Pong Linton 222

11 Thinking Hospitably with Timon of Athens: Toward an Ethics of Stewardship Michael Noschka 242

Contributors 265

Index 269