The Hospitable Globe

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The Hospitable Globe is written by Sheiba Kian Kaufman and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1369174659 (ISBN 10) and 9781369174656 (ISBN 13).

The Hospitable Globe examines how English representations of Persia present paradigms of interreligious and intercultural hospitality for early modern and Shakespearean drama. Rather than staging an antagonistic, non-Christian foe, English playwrights depict Persia and its legendary monarchs, such as Cyrus the Great, as alternative spaces and figures of cosmopolitanism in the period. By focusing on a group of Persian-themed plays staged between 1561--1696 in conversation with Shakespeare's works, European peace proposals, and theories and practices of hospitality, this project reconstructs a more hospitable form of global relationships in the early modern period by contending that cross-cultural exchange, then and now, is not limited to models of conflict, contest, and domination.