The author examines the contribution of literature to an understanding of English-immigrant relations from the 1540s through the 1600s, with an emphasis on the 1590s, as economic problems strained those relations, and offers an alternative to descriptions of xenophobia in England by illustrating a community that accommodated the presence of immigrants. He focuses on continental immigration to England, rather than on the Scottish, Welsh, or Irish, and literature that portrays a collective identity that is global or multicultural, including plays, ballads, pageants, poems, and prose fiction, as well as religious, economic, and legal documents. These include Anne Dowriche's The French Historie, Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, works by Thomas Deloney and Thomas Dekker, the plays of William Haughton and Shakespeare, and John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan. Early versions of some chapters were previously published elsewhere. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)