"What Country, Friends, is This?"

Vanessa I. Corredera is a professor of English at Baylor University. She is a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and a general editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. Stephanie E. Chamberlain is professor emerita at Southeast Missouri State University. James M. Sutton is associate professor of English and assistant director of the Exile Studies Program at Florida International University.

• Introduction by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton Section 1: Shakespeare and the Discourse of ExileChapter 1. “The Tongue in Exile” by Scott Oldenburg, Tulane UniversityChapter 2. “Breathing Banishment: Sentences of Exile in Shakespeare” by Alexander Thom, University of LeedsChapter 3. “Strangers, Affect, and the Law in The Comedy of Errors and Sir Thomas More” by Kirsten N. Mendoza, University of DaytonChapter 4. “Ovid the Exile in As You Like It and Poetaster” by David Summers, Capital UniversitySection 2: Exile in/and ShakespeareChapter 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 CollegeChapter 6. “‘Now I’m in exile seeing you out’: Antonio and Celia’s Queer-Exilic Narratives” by Nashaly Melendez, Florida International UniversityChapter 7. “The Prince that was Promised: Hamlet and Henry V as Shakespeare’s Exiled Princes” by Madeline Cisneros, University of MiamiChapter 8. “Othello and the Handkerchief: Exile through Project-Based Learning in the Secondary School English Classroom” by Alexandra Carter, Deerfield AcademyChapter 9. “Exile in the Promised Land: Jessica’s Immigration Debacle in The Merchant of Venice” by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Southeast Missouri State UniversitySection 3: Shakespeare and Exile in Contemporary CultureChapter 10. “Considering Exile and Animality in Shakespeare and Levi: King Lear and If This is a Man” by Richard Ashby, King’s College LondonChapter 11. “Refugee Shakespeares: Early Modern Drama and Twenty-First Century Displacement” by Robin Kello, University of California, Los AngelesChapter 12. “Shakespearean Drama, First-Generation College Students, and the Experience of Double-Exile” by Mardy Philippian, Lewis UniversityChapter 13. “Chiseling Darkness, Writing in Light: Caliban as Moses” by Claire Dawkins, Stanford Online High SchoolChapter 14. “Histories Remembered: A Diasporic Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe” by L. Monique Pittman, Andrews UniversityEpilogue: Jane Kingsley-Smith, University of Roehampton

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