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An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today.
This compelling collection of fourteen essays explores the enduring theme of exile in Shakespeare’s works and their global afterlives, offering a timely and thought-provoking response to the modern age of displacement. Building on Edward Said’s observation that exile today is marked by its unprecedented scale—driven by war, imperialism, totalitarianism, climate change, and systemic injustice—this volume traces the ideological and cultural forces that shape experiences of exile across time and geography.
Shakespeare’s plays, deeply haunted by exile in its many guises—political, religious, cultural, and gendered—serve as a rich site for interrogating identity, belonging, and otherness.
This compelling collection of fourteen essays explores the enduring theme of exile in Shakespeare’s works and their global afterlives, offering a timely and thought-provoking response to the modern age of displacement. Building on Edward Said’s observation that exile today is marked by its unprecedented scale—driven by war, imperialism, totalitarianism, climate change, and systemic injustice—this volume traces the ideological and cultural forces that shape experiences of exile across time and geography.
Shakespeare’s plays, deeply haunted by exile in its many guises—political, religious, cultural, and gendered—serve as a rich site for interrogating identity, belonging, and otherness.
544 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2026
History: British and Irish History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Table of Contents
Introduction by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton
Section 1: Shakespeare and the Discourse of Exile
Chapter 1. “The Tongue in Exile” by Scott Oldenburg, Tulane University
Chapter 2. “Breathing Banishment: Sentences of Exile in Shakespeare” by Alexander Thom, University of Leeds
Chapter 3. “Strangers, Affect, and the Law in The Comedy of Errors and Sir Thomas More” by Kirsten N. Mendoza, University of Dayton
Chapter 4. “Ovid the Exile in As You Like It and Poetaster” by David Summers, Capital University
Section 2: Exile in/and Shakespeare
Chapter 5. “‘Here in the skirts of the forests, like fringe upon a petticoat’: Along the Edge in As You Like It” by Elizabeth Acosta, El Paso Community College
Chapter 6. “‘Now I’m in exile seeing you out’: Antonio and Celia’s Queer-Exilic Narratives” by Nashaly Melendez, Florida International University
Chapter 7. “The Prince that was Promised: Hamlet and Henry V as Shakespeare’s Exiled Princes” by Madeline Cisneros, University of Miami
Chapter 8. “Othello and the Handkerchief: Exile through Project-Based Learning in the Secondary School English Classroom” by Alexandra Carter, Deerfield Academy
Chapter 9. “Exile in the Promised Land: Jessica’s Immigration Debacle in The Merchant of Venice” by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Southeast Missouri State University
Section 3: Shakespeare and Exile in Contemporary Culture
Chapter 10. “Considering Exile and Animality in Shakespeare and Levi: King Lear and If This is a Man” by Richard Ashby, King’s College London
Chapter 11. “Refugee Shakespeares: Early Modern Drama and Twenty-First Century Displacement” by Robin Kello, University of California, Los Angeles
Chapter 12. “Shakespearean Drama, First-Generation College Students, and the Experience of Double-Exile” by Mardy Philippian, Lewis University
Chapter 13. “Chiseling Darkness, Writing in Light: Caliban as Moses” by Claire Dawkins, Stanford Online High School
Chapter 14. “Histories Remembered: A Diasporic Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe” by L. Monique Pittman, Andrews University
Epilogue: Jane Kingsley-Smith, University of Roehampton
Section 1: Shakespeare and the Discourse of Exile
Chapter 1. “The Tongue in Exile” by Scott Oldenburg, Tulane University
Chapter 2. “Breathing Banishment: Sentences of Exile in Shakespeare” by Alexander Thom, University of Leeds
Chapter 3. “Strangers, Affect, and the Law in The Comedy of Errors and Sir Thomas More” by Kirsten N. Mendoza, University of Dayton
Chapter 4. “Ovid the Exile in As You Like It and Poetaster” by David Summers, Capital University
Section 2: Exile in/and Shakespeare
Chapter 5. “‘Here in the skirts of the forests, like fringe upon a petticoat’: Along the Edge in As You Like It” by Elizabeth Acosta, El Paso Community College
Chapter 6. “‘Now I’m in exile seeing you out’: Antonio and Celia’s Queer-Exilic Narratives” by Nashaly Melendez, Florida International University
Chapter 7. “The Prince that was Promised: Hamlet and Henry V as Shakespeare’s Exiled Princes” by Madeline Cisneros, University of Miami
Chapter 8. “Othello and the Handkerchief: Exile through Project-Based Learning in the Secondary School English Classroom” by Alexandra Carter, Deerfield Academy
Chapter 9. “Exile in the Promised Land: Jessica’s Immigration Debacle in The Merchant of Venice” by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Southeast Missouri State University
Section 3: Shakespeare and Exile in Contemporary Culture
Chapter 10. “Considering Exile and Animality in Shakespeare and Levi: King Lear and If This is a Man” by Richard Ashby, King’s College London
Chapter 11. “Refugee Shakespeares: Early Modern Drama and Twenty-First Century Displacement” by Robin Kello, University of California, Los Angeles
Chapter 12. “Shakespearean Drama, First-Generation College Students, and the Experience of Double-Exile” by Mardy Philippian, Lewis University
Chapter 13. “Chiseling Darkness, Writing in Light: Caliban as Moses” by Claire Dawkins, Stanford Online High School
Chapter 14. “Histories Remembered: A Diasporic Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe” by L. Monique Pittman, Andrews University
Epilogue: Jane Kingsley-Smith, University of Roehampton