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13 wrz 2024 · 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 ...
- The Stranger’s Case: Exile in Shakespeare | SpringerLink
This chapter introduces the contexts and theatrical...
- The Stranger’s Case: Exile in Shakespeare | SpringerLink
2 sie 2023 · This chapter introduces the contexts and theatrical practices of exile in Shakespearean drama before considering two case studies in greater depth: Romeo and Juliet and Pericles.
Banishment in Shakespeare. Being banished was the worst thing that could happen to an Elizabethan, sometimes even worse than death. Being in exile was a temporary condition but being banished was for life.
According to Stephen Dedalus, exile is central to Shakespeare's life-story and to his life's work: The note of banishment, banishment from the heart, banishment from home,
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...
In his late dramas, particularly Pericles and Cymbeline, William Shakespeare transformed exile. In these plays, Shakespeare presents exile as more than a punishment sentenced by powerful people; he shows that exile can be caused by nature or even self-induced.
By contrast, in Shakespeare’s late plays, for example Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, we find the exile ranging across countries and seas (imaginatively extending to continents and oceans) and through time.
