Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the stranger crisis of the early 1590s / Eric Griffin -- "My hopes abroad" : the global/local nexus in The merchant of Venice / Geraldo U. de Sousa -- Hosting language : immigration and translation in the Merry wives of Windsor / Kathryn Vomero Santos -- Fluellen's foreign influence and the ill neighborhood of King Henry V / Ruben Espinosa -- "A noble troop of strangers" : masques of blackness in Shakespeare's Henry VIII / Bernadette Andrea -- "Boat people" : wars of religion, women refugees, and Shakespeare's The tempest / Bindu Malieckal -- The Black alien in Othello : beyond the European immigrant / Imtiaz Habib -- Race words in Othello / Peter Erickson -- Open doors, secure borders : the paradoxical immigration policy of Belmont in The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Acosta -- Coda : "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome" / David Ruiter.

Shakespeare and Immigration presents a variety of perspectives on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama, and the way that attention to the influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of community and identity. Offering the first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work, this volume constitutes a timely, necessary addition to studies of race, ethics, and national identity in Shakespeare -- Provided by publisher.

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