Shakespeare's Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeare's most eccentric big men.

Richard van Oort received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 2002, and was visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia until 2007, when he joined the English department at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and Shakespeare's Mad Men: A Crisis of Authority (Stanford University Press, 2022).