Format:
viii, 240 Seiten ;
,
22 cm.
ISBN:
978-1-5261-4404-1
Content:
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
Note:
"Most of the material in this book has been translated and adapted from my French book 'Mise au ban et abus de pouvoir. Essai sur trois pièces tragiques de Shakespeare', published by the Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2012, in the series directed by Marie-Madeleine Martinet [...]" (Acknowledgements)
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
1564-1616 Shakespeare, William
;
Verbannung
;
Macht
URL:
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