Shakespeare's Drama of Exile

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 1-30

3. ‘That One Word “Banishèd”’: Linguistic Crisis in Romeo and Juliet

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 31-55

4. ‘Still-Breeding Thoughts’: Richard II and the Exile’s Creative Failure

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 56-81

5. Historical-Pastoral Exile in Henry IV Parts One and Two

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 82-105

6. ‘Hereafter, in a Better World than This’: the End of Exile in As You Like It and King Lear

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 106-136

7. Coriolanus: the Banishment of Rome

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 137-158

8. ‘A World Elsewhere’: Magic, Colonialism and Exile in The Tempest

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 159-173

9. Conclusion

   • Jane Kingsley-Smith

   Pages 174-177

10. Back Matter

    Pages 178-237

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Exile defines the Shakespearean canon, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen . This book traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England; the self-consciousness of exile as an amatory trope; and the discourses by which exile could be reshaped into comedy or tragedy. Across genres, Shakespeare's plays reveal a fascination with exile as the source of linguistic crisis, shaped by the utterance of that word 'Banished'.

• bibliography
• catholics
• colonialism
• comedy
• consciousness
• crisis
• discourse
• drama
• England
• exile
• King Lear
• knowledge
• play
• tragedy
• William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Drama of Exile is a deftly woven study...admirably researched and judicious in its claims. - Shakespeare

'Kingsley-Smith draws attention to a prominent theme in early modern drama...a deftly- woven study...admirably researched and judicious in its claims.' - Mark Hutchings

• Department of English, University of Hull, UK

  Jane Kingsley-Smith

JANE KINGSLEY-SMITH completed her PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and is now Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. She has published a number of articles on Shakespeare and on his representation in film, and her wider research interests include the eighteenth-century novel and the works of Iris Murdoch.

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