Shakespeare's Drama of Exile
Description
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".
Keywords
Literary Criticism
2004Book
Author(s)Jane Kingsley-Smith
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333993446
LanguageEnglish
