Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Asylum Seekers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E A J Honigmann (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 225-235 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Shakespeare Survey : Volume 57, Macbeth and Its Afterlife (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ccol0521841208.018 |
| OpenAlex | W2502875398 |
| ISBN | 9781139052764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
All over the world the problems created by asylum seekers, and the hostility aroused by legal and illegal immigrants, grow more acute. Shakespeare dramatized these problems – the anti-alien feeling that flared up at various times in London, and a wonderfully compassionate statement on behalf of refugees, in a scene of three pages that he added to the play of Sir Thomas More. As a former asylum seeker, some of whose relatives perished in concentration camps, I would like to comment on the originality of a scene that is sometimes described as hastily written, ‘with the remaining ink of a pen otherwise employed’, to explain why Shakespeare wrote it and why no one else could have written it.
Alien · Art · Citizenship · Criminology · Feeling · Hostility · Immigration · Originality · Political science · Politics · Refugee · History · Irish and British Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |