Shakespeare and Hospitality

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