Shakespeare's Drama of Exile

JANE KINGSLEY-SMITH completed her PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and is now Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. She has published a number of articles on Shakespeare and on his representation in film, and her wider research interests include the eighteenth-century novel and the works of Iris Murdoch.

Shakespeare's Drama of Exile is a deftly woven study...admirably researched and judicious in its claims. - Shakespeare 'Kingsley-Smith draws attention to a prominent theme in early modern drama...a deftly- woven study...admirably researched and judicious in its claims.' - Mark Hutchings

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction That One Word "Banishèd": Linguistic Crisis in Romeo and Juliet 'Still-Breeding Thoughts': Richard II and the Exile's Creative Failure Historical-Pastoral Exile in Henry IV 'Hereafter, in a Better World Than This': The End of Exile in As You Like It and King Lear Coriolanus : The Banishment of Rome 'A World Elsewhere': Magic, Colonialism and Exile in The Tempest Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index