Shakespeare's Drama of Exile

ISBN-13: 9780333993446 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 237 str.

Dr Jane Kingsley-Smith

Opis

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."

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction That One Word "Banishèd": Linguistic Crisis in Romeo and Juliet 'Still-Breeding Thoughts': Richard II and the Exile's Creative Failure Historical-Pastoral Exile in Henry IV 'Hereafter, in a Better World Than This': The End of Exile in As You Like It and King Lear Coriolanus : The Banishment of Rome 'A World Elsewhere': Magic, Colonialism and Exile in The Tempest Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

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.