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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. -- .
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