Shakespeare's Drama of Exile
Kingsley-Smith, J.
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 fa...
