Newly Published: Paul Raffield, Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2023) @hartpublishing @BloomsburyBooks @uniofwarwick

Newly published: Paul Raffield, University of Warwick, Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2023). Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a ‘stranger’ to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The numbers of strangers increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century, as refugees fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought sanctuary in Protestant England.

This is the third sole-authored book by Paul Raffield on the subject of Shakespeare and the Law. The others are Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law (2010) and The Art of Law in Shakespeare (2017), both published by Hart/Bloomsbury.

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