Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law

by Paul Raffield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509965467
• ISBN13: 9781509965465
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"