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	Coriolanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was given the agnomen "Coriolanus" as a result of his action in capturing the Volscian town of Corioli in 493 BC.
		According to Plutarch, Coriolanus represented the Roman aristocracy and was well respected in the Roman Senate for arguing against the democratic inclinations of the plebeians.
		The tale of Coriolanus' appeal to Aufidius is quite similar to a tale from the life of Themistocles, a leader of the Athenian democracy who was a contemporary of Coriolanus (given the important distinction that Themistocles was an actual historical figure and Coriolanus was not).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coriolanus (535 words)

	Coriolanus (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader.
		Volumnia succeeds in dissuading her son from destroying Rome, and Coriolanus instead concludes a peace treaty between the Volscians and the Romans.
		Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coriolanus_(play) (922 words)

	CORIOLANUS - LoveToKnow Article on CORIOLANUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The incident of Coriolanus taking refuge with the Volscian king,who, according to Plutarch, was his bitter enemy, curiously resembles the appeal of Themistocles to the Molossian king Admetus.
		It is' strange that the Volscians should have entrusted a stranger with the command of their army, and it is possible that the attribution of their successes to a Roman general was intended to gratify the national pride and obliterate the memory of a disastrous war.
		It is suggested that: Coriolanus never commanded the Volscian army at all, but that, like Appius Herdoniusthe Sabine chieftain who in 460, with a band of fugitives and slaves, obtained possession of the capitolhe appeared at the gates of Rome at the head of a body of exiles (but at a much later date, c.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CORIOLANUS.htm (649 words)

	Coriolanus
		Probably the last of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Coriolanus is a complex and subtle exploration of the themes of absolutism and compromise, both in the political world and in the life of the individual.
		Coriolanus returns to Rome in triumph and is greeted by his wife and mother.
		When the tribunes warn him to go no further, Coriolanus accuses them of inciting the plebeians against him and asserts that the people did not deserve free distribution of corn because they were unwilling to defend their country in war.
	www.arkangelshakespeare.com /coriolanus-1.html (1148 words)

	Coriolanus
		Although Coriolanus is considered the Ahero@ and protagonist of Shakespeare=s Coriolanus and should be a strong, sympathetic character, he is dominated and overpowered by the other main characters of the play because they well understand his weaknesses and are able to manipulate and defeat him.
		Coriolanus is the least popular of the great tragedies and this is probably due to the character of the hero with whom modern audiences find it more difficult to sympathise than with those who commit murder or adultery.
		In her argument to Coriolanus, she applies logos, showing that appearing humble to the people does not dishonor him, because it is the only way which he will be able to achieve the coveted consul position.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~u0384586/382paper.htm (2709 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Famous Men of Rome by John H. Haaren & A. B. Poland
		Coriolanus was then ordered to appear before the assembly of the people to be tried, for the people had power to try in their assemblies persons charged with such offences.
		Coriolanus received them cordially, for they were old friends; but he said that he would not spare Rome unless the Romans would give up all the lands and cities which they had taken from the Volscians in former wars.
		Coriolanus happened to be sitting in front of his tent in the Volscian camp with a number of officers around him as the procession came in view.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=haaren&book=rome&story=coriolanus (1474 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Coriolanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Built for the London firm of J. Patton, Junior, and Company, Coriolanus was considered one of the finest iron clippers ever built and known among her contemporaries as "Queen of the Jute Clippers." Her model received the Gold Medal of the Worshipful Company of Shipbuilders in 1877.
		Coriolanus sailed well on the wind, as well as before it, which may have contributed to her collision in midatlantic on February 4, 1890, with the steamship Claymore, whose watch probably underestimated her speed.
		Coriolanus did not, and after several weeks adrift she was taken in tow to Queenstown by Leyland Line's Bostonian.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_023000_coriolanus.htm (400 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Coriolanus [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Coriolanus is widely believed to be a legendary figure who is said to have lived during the 5th century BC.
		According to Plutarch, Coriolanus represented the Roman aristocracy and was well respected in the Roman Senate for arguing against the democratic inclinations of the plebians.
		The tale of Coriolanus' appeal to Aufidius is quite similar to a tale from the life of Themistocles, a leader of the Athenian democracy who was a contemporary of Coriolanus (given the important dictinction that Themistocles was an actual historical figure and Coriolanus was not).
	encyclozine.com /Coriolanus (436 words)

	Coriolanus Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
		This mixed appraisal of the play is due chiefly to the character of Coriolanus himself, who is widely acknowledged to be the least sympathetic protagonist among Shakespeare's tragic figures.
		Coriolanus was, in fact, a military and political leader of ancient Rome, Shakespeare relying upon an account of his career presented by the historian Plutarch in his Lives.
		Not only is Coriolanus a Roman history play in addition to being a tragedy, it is a decidedly political work that embodies a debate or treatise concerning the relative merits of patrician autocracy versus plebian democracy.
	www.enotes.com /coriolanus (414 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Coriolanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In honor of his accomplishment he is given the new name of Coriolanus; Tullus Aufidius, the Volscian general, vows to avenge the defeat.
		Coriolanus is given a great welcome back in Rome for his victory, and the Senate wishes to make him a consul.
		When Coriolanus returns to the Volscians, he explains that Rome will not be conquered—only to be dragged before the Volscian senators, accused of treason by Aufidius, and unceremoniously stabbed to death.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/23.html (282 words)

	Alcibiades and Coriolanus Compared by Plutarch
		Coriolanus, on the other hand, first of all attacked the whole body of his countrymen, though only one portion of them had done him any wrong, while the other, the better and nobler portion, had actually suffered, as well as sympathized, with him.
		Coriolanus declined to receive it, even when pressed upon him by his commanders as an honour; and one great reason for the odium he incurred with the populace in the discussions about their debts was, that he trampled upon the poor, not for money's sake, but out of pride and insolence.
		Coriolanus, moreover, it should be said, did not as a general obtain any successes for his country, but only for his enemies against his country.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Alcibiades_and_Coriolanus_Compared (735 words)

	Comparative Literature: In the name of Coriolanus: The prompter (prompted) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Coriolanus has been slowly, reluctantly, and, as it turns out, temporarily persuaded to return to the marketplace-"Look," he says boyishly, "I am going" (3.2.134)-to ask once more for the voices of the people, to bow down diminished and demeaned before the "fragments" he disdains.
		Like Coriolanus, Artaud could not abide any notion of a prompter, imagining this base and shadowy figure of the theater to be an invisibly stationed thief of the voice who simultaneously plunders words while whispering them.
		For Coriolanus, the rehearsal and representation of events, robbed and robbing, contaminates consciousness and demeans his dignity, taking with one hand what is given with the other, disabling at the moment of enabling.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200207/ai_n9119402 (1234 words)

	Coriolanus
		After this he is said to have been charged with behaving tyrannically in opposing the distribution of corn to starving plebeians, and as a result to have abandoned Rome, joined the Volsci, and led a Volscian army against his native city.
		Though Coriolanus is arrogant, choleric, and self-centered, he is also a blazingly successful warrior, conspicuous for integrity, who ultimately yields to a tenderness which, he knows, will destroy him.
		Coriolanus is a deeply human as well as a profoundly political play.
	www.croftstudycentre.co.uk /coriolanus.htm (493 words)

	Coriolanus
		Coriolanus was a giant among his peers, and a hero to his people, but pride prevented him from being a man of the people.
		Coriolanus was proud of his military campaigns, and approached all areas of life in the same vain: unyielding, all or nothing, unrelenting force.
		Coriolanus had many supporters among his peers and within the social elite of the Senate, but the two tribunes of the working class, played by Floyd King and Eric Hoffmann, were insulted by his pride and envious of his successes.
	dcmdva-arts.org /archives/Coriolanus.htm (532 words)

	Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He is said to have received the surname Coriolanus after he captured the town of Corioli, which belonged to the Volsci, a people living in a region south of Rome.
		During a famine Coriolanus argued that grain should not be distributed to the starving plebs unless they abolished their newly established tribunate (a political office).
		Coriolanus later took refuge among the Volsci, whom he aided in their war with the Romans.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LegendsAndFolklore/Coriolanus.html (187 words)

	Shakespeare by the Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Gallaccio, grittily hand-some and compelling as Coriolanus, and Elizabeth Murphy, fully charged as Coriolanus's majestic, tough mum Volumnia, give emotional, passionate and finely nuanced performances that are on the way to being great.
		Coriolanus has perhaps one soupcon of humour buried within its dense tangle of political drama.
		When Coriolanus returns with his former enemy to lay waste to Rome, his mother and wife approach the enemy camp and plea for their lives and their city in a wonderfully staged and gripping scene.
	shakespearebythesea.ca /OurCompany/Reviews/2003CoriolanusHerald.html (525 words)

	Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus
		The career of the Roman nobleman Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus was dominated by two struggles: the war between the Romans and Volsci and the conflict of the orders.
		In 489-488V, Coriolanus was elected as one of the generals of a Volscian army, and he was extremely successful.
		Coriolanus first took the port of Circeii in the extreme south of Latium (modern Terracina), and advanced via Tolerium, Bola, Labici, Pedum, Corbio, Capitulum, and Bovillae to Rome.
	www.livius.org /man-md/marcius/coriolanus.html (1267 words)

	Coriolanus by Shakespeare. Who is to blame for Coriolanus's banishment? by Ian Mackean
		This insight does not enable us to excuse Coriolanus for his behaviour, but it does prevent us from presenting a simple fl and white case on the question of who is to blame for his downfall.In Coriolanus's Rome the citizens fall roughly into two categories, the patricians and the plebeians.
		By this criterion, although the military service Coriolanus has done for Rome is undeniably great, it is also undeniable that he is likely to do a great deal of harm to the living fabric of the society.
		In terms of the action of the play, therefore, we must appoint blame primarily to Coriolanus himself for his arrogance and open display of hatred, and secondarily to the spiteful jealousy of the tribunes, and the indecision and gullibility of the plebeians.
	www.literature-study-online.com /essays/coriolanus.html (1669 words)

	Coriolanus
		The abysmal stupidity, blindness and cowardice of the mob that enrages Coriolanus and drives him to treason is the obligato of the tragedy.
		Alan Howard's Coriolanus is the gruff, hot-tempered soldier, a sort of natural force of fierce independence, although his surface image is motivated by his mother.
		Howard conveys with ironic humour the scene in which he chides the populace in begging for their "voices"; he looks the valiant, battle-scarred warrior, and his submission to his mother's demands constitutes an episode that gives fresh dimension to his characterization, but probably deliberately he avoids the note of infinite pathos.
	www.picks.plus.com /howard/coriparis.htm (622 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 2, 2000: Paul Cefalu
		Coriolanus and the Tribunes clash not due to the incompatibility between any fixed ideologies, but rather due to the fundamental ambiguity internal to the state itself: an unresolved tension between negative libertarianism and paternalism which reflects the internal self-fissuring of Jacobean government.
		Coriolanus is a good example of the kind of paradoxical negative libertarian figure Quentin Skinner describes in his essay on early modern republicanism and negative freedom.
		Coriolanus is not the embodiment of Jacobean absolutism, but rather the avatar of Charles, Laud, and Strafford, to the extent that each of these notables requires containment when a skewed pursuit upsets consensus in the settled state.
	www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm (5626 words)

	Coriolanus Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Richard Slemaker (left) and George Nelson, who play tribunes, look over their scrolls in a scene from Shakespeare's "Coriolanus." Below: Citizens reach up to catch Dale Sams, who plays Aufidius, as he is dropped by John Cruncleton, who also directs the production.
		"Coriolanus" is one of Shakespeare's least user-friendly plays, a tragedy about a man for whom it's virtually impossible to feel any sympathy.
		Sally Hedgecock turns in a lively performance as a bitter and sarcastic Roman citizen, George Nelson and Richard Slemaker are memorable as scheming consuls and Sara Cruncleton is a breath of fresh air as the gossip Valeria.
	www.midwesterntheater.org /press/coriolanus_review.html (794 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Coriolanus'
		ONE WORD of advice about Coriolanus: Since the play is rarely produced and deals with ancient history, it helps to read the script ahead of time, since there is barely a moment when the stage isn't full of competing factions, which can be confusing if you don't know your Agrippa from your Titus.
		Coriolanus' problem is his belief that he's entitled to a consulship on account of his military prowess, which is understandable given that Rome, while messily giving birth to democracy, is at war with the neighboring Volscians, whom Coriolanus almost single-handedly defeats at Corioles (hence his honorific title, in addition to his given name, Caius Martius).
		Unlike Coriolanus, she's prepared to change her tune, at least in public, if that will enable her to slither into the power spot, but, a prisoner of her gender, she becomes part of her son's collateral damage.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/08.07.02/coriolanus-0232.html (772 words)

	Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		Coriolanus, outraged, refuses to submit to death (Coriolanus claims he has killed over 20,000 men in his lifetime, and a few Roman citizens would be little match for himself), and instead flees Rome, leaving his wife Virgilia and mother Volumnia in Rome without him.
		Led by Coriolanus, the Volsces seize and plunder all of the outlying Roman towns and approach Rome itself.
		Aufidius, furious because Coriolanus did not attack Rome and because Coriolanus has become more powerful than Aufidius himself with Aufidius' own armies and men, murders Coriolanus in a fit of rage in front of the Lords of the city of Corioli.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/coriolanus (594 words)

	Shakespeare Coriolanus Summary
		It deals with the instability and constant upheaval of the republic, the downside of popular rule and democratic extremism, and with Coriolanus' tragic flaws in which his nobility is outweighed by his lack of political realism and tact.
		The citizens of Rome are angry with the haughty patrician (and presumably senator) Caius Marcius (the future Coriolanus) and want to kill him because of his arrogance and contempt for the common people.
		Coriolanus appears in partial disguise in the city of Antium before Aufidius' house.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_coriolanus.html (1216 words)

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