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Shakespeare and the denial of territory

Banishment, abuse of power and strategies of resistance

By Pascale Drouet

Shakespeare and the denial of territory
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  • ISBN: 9781526144041
  • Publish Date: Nov 2021
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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  • ISBN: 9781526144065
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    • Format: eBook
    • Published Date: November 2021

    Description

    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.

    Contents

    Introduction

    Part I: The dynamic of deterritorialisation in King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus
    1 Swearing allegiance or questioning power
    2 Abuse of power and banishment: from 'effet de retour' to unnaturalness
    3 The talion effect: deterritorialisation for deterritorialisaion

    Part II: The dynamic of riposte in King Richard II and Coriolanus
    4 The politics of illegal return
    5 The necessity of the 'war machine'
    6 Alternatives to the 'war machine'

    Part III: The experience of internal(ised) exile in King Lear
    7 Dissembling and avoiding banishment
    8 Assuming otherness, or the spiral of degradation
    9 Home as a foreign elsewhere

    Part IV: The dialectic of endurance and exhaustion in King Richard II and King Lear
    10 Mental spaces and types of interiority
    11 The limits of endurance and the signs of exhaustion
    12 Maps of emotions

    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index

    Author

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

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