"Banishment" is an ordinary English word which means the same whether you read it in Shakespeare or in anything else written in English. A number of people get banished in Shakespeare's plays: Mowbray in Richard II, Kent in King Lear and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Banishment is a kind of legal punishment where you must leave your native country (or city in Romeo's case) and can never come back, or can only come back after a certain number of years have passed.
In his time, it was a punishment for murder or just banishment to leave and never come back.
Sorry, Shakespeare did not use that word.
Shakespeare does not use the word townsfolk.
In a forward direction.
Oft is not a shortened word. Often is a lengthened word. The original word is oft and the form often did not appear until about a century before Shakespeare's day. They are, of course, the same word and mean the same thing.
In his time, it was a punishment for murder or just banishment to leave and never come back.
Banishment is a word.
Sorry, Shakespeare did not use that word.
The word is exile.
Shakespeare does not use the word townsfolk.
In a forward direction.
Shakespeare wrote in English. "The" means exactly the same when he used it as it does when you use it.
Oft is not a shortened word. Often is a lengthened word. The original word is oft and the form often did not appear until about a century before Shakespeare's day. They are, of course, the same word and mean the same thing.
I think you mean excommunication, which means banishment from a group. His excommunication from that church didn't upset him even a little.
William Shakespeare sometimes uses the word gi in his plays. This word has the same meaning as the word give.
Waxen means made of wax. Its meaning has not changed since Shakespeare used it.
There is no word "meration" in Shakespeare.