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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 8:07 am
Scholarly evidence now attributes a three-page section of the play Sir Thomas More (1591-93) to William Shakespeare. If true, its safe to say the Elizabethan poet was a fierce defender of immigrant rights; or, at the very least, had empathy for so-called "strangers" seeking a better life, in a new place. I Was A Stranger, a five-part, neorealist drama set during the height of the Syrian civil war, in 2015, begins with Shakespeare's impassioned speech to a group of braying rioters, demanding the bigots see themselves in the shoes of the stranger with "babies at their backs and their poor luggage." Do you imagine you'd be treated any differently, Shakespeare seems to ask, if you were a stranger in another land?
Source: https://screenrant.com/i-was-a-stranger-movie-review/