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• Title:Shakespeare and the denial of territory : banishment, abuse of power and strategies of resistance / Pascale Drouet.
  
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• Author/Creator:Drouet, Pascale, 1971- author.
  
• Published/Created:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR2989 .D76 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Richard II.
  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Coriolanus.
  Exile (Punishment) in literature.
  
• Description:viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary: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."-- Publisher website
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-235) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781526144041 (hardcover)
  1526144042 (hardcover)
  9781526144065 (electronic publication)
  1526144069 (electronic publication)
  9781526144058 (electronic book)
  1526144050 (electronic book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I 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. talion effect: deterritorialisation for deterritorialisation
  pt. II dynamic of riposte in King Richard II and Coriolanus
  4. politics of illegal return
  5. necessity of the `war machine'
  6. Alternatives to the `war machine'
  pt. III 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
  pt. IV dialectic of endurance and exhaustion in King Richard II and King Lear
  10. Mental spaces and types of interiority
  11. limits of endurance and the signs of exhaustion
  12. Maps of emotions.