Sophie E. Battell is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zurich.

Sophie E. Battell’s remarkable first book shifts our attention from the outsider as an object for study, and from Shakespeare’s historical contexts. Instead, this book offers refreshing insights into the troubled relation between host and guest in Shakespeare’s works as enlightened by continental philosophy. [...] Seasoned by further discussion, one cannot suggest this monograph is anything but a landmark publication.

• Series Editors' PrefaceIntroductionHospitality and the Supernatural in The Comedy of ErrorsCosmopolitan Soundscapes in The Merchant of VeniceTroilus and Cressida: Militarised EncountersTimon of Athens and ParasitologySecretive Hosts in PericlesAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Sophie E. Battell is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zurich.

Sophie E. Battell’s remarkable first book shifts our attention from the outsider as an object for study, and from Shakespeare’s historical contexts. Instead, this book offers refreshing insights into the troubled relation between host and guest in Shakespeare’s works as enlightened by continental philosophy. [...] Seasoned by further discussion, one cannot suggest this monograph is anything but a landmark publication.

• Series Editors' PrefaceIntroductionHospitality and the Supernatural in The Comedy of ErrorsCosmopolitan Soundscapes in The Merchant of VeniceTroilus and Cressida: Militarised EncountersTimon of Athens and ParasitologySecretive Hosts in PericlesAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Sophie E. Battell is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zurich.

Sophie E. Battell’s remarkable first book shifts our attention from the outsider as an object for study, and from Shakespeare’s historical contexts. Instead, this book offers refreshing insights into the troubled relation between host and guest in Shakespeare’s works as enlightened by continental philosophy. [...] Seasoned by further discussion, one cannot suggest this monograph is anything but a landmark publication.

• Series Editors' PrefaceIntroductionHospitality and the Supernatural in The Comedy of ErrorsCosmopolitan Soundscapes in The Merchant of VeniceTroilus and Cressida: Militarised EncountersTimon of Athens and ParasitologySecretive Hosts in PericlesAfterwordBibliographyIndex