Shakespeare and the denial of territory

Zusatztext

This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment:<i>King Richard II, Coriolanus,</i>and<i>King Lear.</i>In these plays, the abuses of power are triggered by fearless speeches that question the legitimacy of power and are misinterpreted as breaches of allegiance; in these plays, both the bold speech of the fearless speaker and the performative sentence of the banisher trigger the relentless dynamics of whatDeleuze and Guattari termed deterritorialisation. This book approaches the central question of the abusive denial of territory from various angles: linguistic, legal and ethical, physical and psychological. Various strategies of resistance are explored: illegal return, which takes the form of a frontal counterattack employing a war machine; ruse and the experience of internal(ised) exile; and mental escape, which nonetheless may lead to madness, exhaustion or heartbreak.

Autorenportrait

Pascale Drouet is Professor in Early Modern British Literature at the University of Poitiers in France

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