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Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hardcover)
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Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines
what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late
Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The numbers of strangers
increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century, as refugees
fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought
sanctuary in Protestant England. In the context of this book,
strangers are not only persons ethnically or racially different
from their English counterparts, be they immigrants, refugees, or
visitors. The term also includes those who transgress or are simply
excluded by their status from established legal norms by virtue of
their faith, sexuality, or mode of employment. Each chapter
investigates a particular category of 'stranger'. Topics include
the treatment of actors in late Elizabethan England and the
punishment of 'counterfeits' (Measure for Measure); the standing of
refugees under English law and the reception of these people by the
indigenous population (The Comedy of Errors); the establishment of
'Troynovant' as an international trading centre on the banks of the
Thames (Troilus and Cressida); the role of law and the state in
determining the rights of citizens and aliens (The Merchant of
Venice); and the disenfranchised, estranged position of the citizen
in a dysfunctional society and an acephalous realm (King Lear).
This is the third sole-authored book by Paul Raffield on the
subject of Shakespeare and the Law. The others are Shakespeare's
Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre
of Law (2010) and The Art of Law in Shakespeare (2017), both
published by Hart/Bloomsbury.
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