TY - JOUR

T1 - ‘“Why I should welcome such a guest as grief [?]”: Lodging and dislodging in Shakespeare's Richard II’

AU - Hiscock, Andrew

PY - 2022/7

Y1 - 2022/7

N2 - This article discusses the early modern cultural debate surrounding hospitality and inhospitality in the light of contemporaneous responses to history and the history play. The dominant focus of this discussion is Shakespeare's Richard II and the ways in which it seeks to interrogate and to critique early modern expectations of welcoming by inverting them repeatedly as the dramatic intrigue unfolds. Throughout this article, reference is made to cultural debate on the subject of (in)hospitality in the contemporary, post-World War II period.

AB - This article discusses the early modern cultural debate surrounding hospitality and inhospitality in the light of contemporaneous responses to history and the history play. The dominant focus of this discussion is Shakespeare's Richard II and the ways in which it seeks to interrogate and to critique early modern expectations of welcoming by inverting them repeatedly as the dramatic intrigue unfolds. Throughout this article, reference is made to cultural debate on the subject of (in)hospitality in the contemporary, post-World War II period.

KW - William Shakespeare

KW - Richard II

KW - hospitality

KW - welcome

KW - hostility

KW - early modern history

U2 - 10.1177%2F01847678221099975

DO - 10.1177%2F01847678221099975

M3 - Article

VL - 108

SP - 91

EP - 106

JO - Cahiers Elisabéthains

JF - Cahiers Elisabéthains

SN - 0184-7678

IS - 1

ER -