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"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.

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