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A trailblazing intervention in the burgeoning field of hospitality studies, which transforms our understanding of the plays of Shakespeare by revealing the complex concern with the welcoming of strangers that lies at the heart of their vision and brings them urgently alive for us today.--Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London Sophie E. Battell's remarkable first book shifts our attention from the outsider as an object for study, and from Shakespeare's historical contexts. Instead, this book offers refreshing insights into the troubled relation between host and guest in Shakespeare's works as enlightened by continental philosophy. [...] Seasoned by further discussion, one cannot suggest this monograph is anything but a landmark publication.--Alexander Thom, University of Leeds ""Shakespeare"" This brilliant and urgent new book draws hospitality beyond the household, to consider the entertaining of refugees, the detention of migrants, and the healing power of stranger-love. Displaced by shipwreck, exile and abandonment, Shakespeare's guests and hosts explore the trust required to build a just and welcoming polity.--Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine

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Sophie E. Battell is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zurich.

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