Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory

Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance

Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory
Pascale Drouet
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 256pg
16 Nov 2021 UK
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9781526144041
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This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus, and King Lear. 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 what Deleuze 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.
Pascale Drouet is Professor in Early Modern British Literature at the University of Poitiers in France
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ISBN-13: 9781526144041
Published: 16 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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