Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama

Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550–1600, including Shakespeare''s second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from inter-British contact and Continental immigration into England are reinvented and rehearsed on the public...