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	Coriolanus (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The drama especially and thoroughly examines the divide between plebeian democracy (favored in the play by villains Brutus and Sicinius) and the autocracy represented by the Coriolanus and the consulship.
		Like Hamlet, the central relationship of the play is between a mother and her son, but in Coriolanus, this relationship is both less fractured and devoid of the sexual tension that exists between Gertrude and the danish prince.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coriolanus_(play) (1029 words)

	"Power Politics -- On 'Coriolanus'" an essay by Don Shewey
		But the people are Rome, and Coriolanus is a traitor to his country." The play is deeply suspicious of both heroism and democracy, and in the ethical battle between the arrogant patrician warrior and the countrymen he would rule, Shakespeare ascribes many layers of complexity and contradiction to both sides.
		Coriolanus is permitted neither charismatic influence over the populace nor the option of a sentimental response to his mother's pleas in defense of Rome; in fact, he's incapable of acting on any motive except to benefit his own (patrician) class.
		That television is a medium that distorts and conceals truth as readily as it conveys it is an irony worthy of Coriolanus.
	www.donshewey.com /theater_reviews/coriolanus.html (2582 words)

	Coriolanus
		The action is swift, the language stirring, and the play's editing skilfully maximises the effect of irresistible political energies fatally colliding with a figure of rock-like obstinacy, pride and "soaring insolence".
		But the play's tension and poignancy lie elsewhere—in the impossibility of being true to himself and his own morality, while at the same time adopting the false guise of a populistic stage performer which electoral politics require.
		The character of Volumnia is well played by Dinah Shearing, and the scene in which she successfully appeals for mercy at the gates of Rome is piercing.
	www.culturecult.com /theatre/coriolanus.htm (1789 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Coriolanus by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		The action of the play chronicles Marcius’ life, from the pinnacle of achievement on the battlefield to his pitiable downfall and murder at the hands of the Volscians.
		Coriolanus is a political tragedy whose purpose was not only to recreate the characters of Coriolanus and his associates but also to interpret the political situation in Rome in terms that were applicable to the England of 1607-08.
		The subject of the play is a class struggle set in the Rome of 490 BC It presents the conflict between the plebeians and the patricians, the poor and the rich, the weak and the powerful.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCoriolanus61.asp (518 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 2, 2000: Paul Cefalu
		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.
		The play is also prophetic inasmuch as it emphasises the importance in English culture of ministering to the demands of the common culture, a practice which had just begun to show itself in the seventeenth century but which was not really undertaken by any early modern party or class until the civil war years.
		Rather than interpret the play as an allegorical enactment of historically established party and class antagonisms, which did not in fact exist during the early seventeenth century, the class positions in the play should be seen as two unreified manifestations of the duality of the early modern state.
	www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm (5626 words)

	Coriolanus
		Acknowledging that Coriolanus is a political play, we can only affirm that it pits a an upper-class, autocratic patrician viewpoint, as espoused and exploited by Menenius, against a lower-class, leveling plebian perspective, as espoused and exploited by the tribunes Sicinius and Brutus.
		But Coriolanus cannot transfer his military prowess into political clout: indeed, the normative source of his success as a general, his dedication to a code of courageous nobility, is what undermines his power in the civil realm.
		Coriolanus cannot speak for himself for two reasons: first, he has never thought about his behavior and has nothing approximating introspection; second, his mother, Volumnia, does Coriolanus's thinking and speaking for him, a point to which we shall return shortly.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/4749/coriolanus.html (395 words)

	Coriolanus the play by William Shakespeare
		This section is dedicated to Coriolanus, the play by William Shakespeare.
		The picture is 18th century and image displayed represents the essence of the play which, we hope, will bring to life a famous scene or character from the play.
		Coriolanus supports the old patrician ways and is totally out of tune with the needs of the ordinary people.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /shakespeare-play-coriolanus.htm (510 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.
		One of the play's central figurative motifs is the analogy of the body politic spelled out by the patrician (rich and conservative) senator Menenius in the opening scene's famous belly speech.
	www.enotes.com /coriolanus (421 words)

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		The reason for this is that unlike his mother, Coriolanus, when placing himself on top of the hierarchy in Rome, refuses to recognize that the superior is dependent on the inferior, the patrician on the plebian, Coriolanus on the masses, the mother on the son.
		In the play Coriolanus is portrayed as a brave warrior at the outset.
		Coriolanus is manifest in his play as both a lamb and a shepherd he is a defeated man who becomes the pray of the wolves of Rome.
	www.lazystudents.com /hyperpapers/harvardshakespeare.html (9218 words)

	van Oort - Coriolanus
		It is the resentfulness of this gesture that Shakespeare's play focuses on.
		Coriolanus is man of action who refuses to acknowledge the necessary mediation of his actions by the most general scene of all -- that is, the scene of linguistic representation.
		Coriolanus is furious at this setback and he curses the cowardice of his men, swearing that he'll put them to the sword if they do not stand their positions.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap0402/coriolan2.htm (7448 words)

	Coriolanus in performance
		This play, In Hands' production and Howard's acting, was not at all a modern political tract on the 'class war'; it was among other things an exploration of the nature of dramatic illusion, and its uncomfortable place in society.
		Coriolanus, he felt, is by then weary of it all, and he is pretty confident that Aufidius will finish him - not there and then, but sooner or later.
		Coriolanus' mother is trying to pull him, and it seems he dies for those sorts of reason, and Howard found it depressing.
	www.alanhoward.org.uk /coriontour.htm (2748 words)

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		JDW thinks the play is related to a struggle between rich and poor, to the consequences of cross purposes between a strong willed mother and a powerful but obedient son, and as a natural consequence from his interest in Antony and Cleopatra.
		Coriolanus is banished by the tribunes, and the plebeians shout
		Coriolanus, the warrior, through pride and contempt for the plebians was exiled from Rome, and died in exile.
	home.eol.ca /~cumulus/Shakespeare/CH30.htm (10555 words)

	Theatre for a New Audience
		She sees CORIOLANUS as a tragedy of Coriolanus and the people—where titles of scenes written on walls dramatize the collision between politics and humanity.
		When Coriolanus is accused of treason, the people force the patricians to banish Coriolanus from Rome forever.
		One of the play’s memorable lines is “What is a city, but the people.” Shakespeare portrays a polarized city-state where the heroic individual and the common people share no common values.
	www.tfana.org /coriolanus.html (331 words)

	Ralph Fiennes Corner: Coriolanus
		So with Coriolanus, it is satisfying to point out the statements it makes about soldiers who are catapulted by their military bravery into the political arena, about the contempt with which some politicians hold the masses, about the foibles of heeding those masses, and so on.
		But Coriolanus, the man, is not Eisenhower or Colin Powell, nor Richard Nixon nor Bill Clinton, Al Gore or George W. Bush, and Coriolanus, the play, is not about all that.
		As we see Fiennes' manifestation of the toxic chemistry that Coriolanus sucked from his mother's breast (by her own boastful admission), we are intrigued to look to Barbara Jefford for the clues to its composition.
	ralph-fiennes.net /theatre/coriolanus/theatre_coriolanus.php (991 words)

	Revenge. Charles a. Hallett: "Anger's My Meat. Coriolanus and the Emotions of Revenge
		Rome's presence is so palpable in the play that it is felt to be a walking, breathing entity on the stage, which in a way it is, in the character of Volumnia.
		Coriolanus is often said to be proud, unyielding, and politically rash.
		In the opening act of the play, Coriolanus wholeheartedly embraces the role of valiant warrior because he assumes Rome to be worthy of his allegiance.
	pages.unibas.ch /shine/revengehallett.htm (3519 words)

	Coriolanus -- 1992
		He is characteristically referred to by himself and others as being alone, as when he calls himself a "lonely dragon." Volumnia can control Coriolanus because no one else has any attachment to him at all, a situation that she has engineered from the time of his birth.
		Coriolanus is not simply Volumnia's child, he is her deliberate creation.
		Playing the hero with feet of clay, Branagh is meanwhile having his own problems.
	www.djdchronology.com /coriolanus.htm (1780 words)

	Coriolanus Review by William Shakespeare at Globe Theatre 2006
		The 'star' of this play is Caius Martius, a human fighting machine and arrogant brute who delights in little else than being in the midst of a bloody battle.
		Cake's Coriolanus is a school bully writ large, egged-on by Margot Leicester's excellent Volumnia, who one can almost imagine bathing in ecstasy in her son's battle-won blood.
		And when Coriolanus meets his demise, he does so in a spectacular and unexpected way, resulting in gasps and shrieks from the stunned audience, but again demonstrating that Dromgoole is going to milk his new found arena in interesting and imaginative ways.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/coriolanus06.htm (853 words)

	Amazon.com: Coriolanus: Books: William Shakespeare,Burton Richard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since Coriolanus spends the majority of the play as a civilian, this is bad news for the audience.
		Coriolanus was simply an honest, hard-working soldier who got the job done and told the truth, but was brought down by the guile of his enemies.
		Coriolanus just worked hard, told the truth, was a straight shooter, and refused to play silly games by telling people what they wanted to hear.
	www.amazon.com /Coriolanus-William-Shakespeare/dp/1559940514 (1854 words)

	TIME.com: Old Play in Manhattan -- Feb. 1, 1954 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But a major play it decidedly is, with a Roman clang and massiveness to its story of a proud patrician hero who is denied the consulate and then banished from the city for not truckling to the plebs, and who joins his former enemies in an expedition against Rome.
		The play portrays the fickle, mindless mob as the poor creature of human vanity, but it also exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride.
		Even the fine scene between mother and son is as masculine in its appeal as a trumpet call; it is the cello note, rather than poetry itself, that is absent from the play.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,860298,00.html (585 words)

	Coriolanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A soldier (Coriolanus) is so successful in defeating a country's enemy that he is asked by the ruling class to assume the position of supreme leader, with the caveat that the general populace must approve his election.
		It would seem that the production is in keeping with the company's mission to present "the entire canon of Shakespeare's plays in theatrically gripping productions that are not goosed up or dumbed down." Bullock appears to take her credo to mean that concept is anathema; that the text will take care of itself.
		The character of Volumnia sums up the problem with the play when she says "Anger is my meat." Anger is the engine that drives the play and it is unrelenting.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/cori3632.htm (1273 words)

	Coriolanus: review on TheaterMania.com
		The action of the play follows Coriolanus through several phases of his career, beginning as an arrogant young warrior who achieves notoriety in a modest battle against the city of Corioli.
		Central to the plot is the influence of Coriolanus' mother, Volumnia (Trae Hicks), who, upon her son's return to the gates of Rome, dissuades him from teaming with Aufidius in an attack on the city.
		Portions of the play, especially in the beginning, are shouted while the performers run in circles and are therefore rather hard to follow.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/2091 (875 words)

	Coriolanus - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - death, riots, the struggle over authority between James 1 and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh - and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's shaping of his primary source in Plutarch's Lives.
		The edition is alert throughout to the play's theatrical potential, while the stage history also attends to the politics of performance from the 1680s to the 1990s, including European productions following the Second World War.
		Introduction: date, theatre, chronology, sources, contemporary contexts, the play, Coriolanus on Shakespeare's stage, stage history; Note on the text; List of characters; The text of the play; Textual analysis; Appendix: lineation; Reading list.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521222265 (171 words)

	Shakespeare, Coriolanus: research material: criticism, sources, theatre, music, film, popular culture, teaching material
		Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet.
		"Coriolanus and His Mother: The Dream of One Performance".
		The Ingratitude of a Common Wealth, Or the Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus.
	pages.unibas.ch /shine/linkstragcoriolanuswf.html (250 words)

	Coriolanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During Themistocles' exile from Athens, he travelled to the home of Admetus, King of the Molossians, a man who was his personal enemy.
		Themistocles came to Admetus in disguise and appealed to him as a fugitive, just as Coriolanus appealed to Aufidius.
		Coriolanus - Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar - Aratus and Artaxerxes and Galba and Otho - Aristides and Cato the Elder
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coriolanus (523 words)

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		I have not often played, as Shakespeare's original actors always did, in the open air and the effort was stupendous.
		Every modern, white actor, taking on Othello, feels obliged to explain why he's not playing him fl, which was surely Shakespeare's intention, when the unspoken reason is that to 'fl-up' is as disgusting these days as a 'nig- ger minstrel show'.
		I've still played Malvolio, only in that schoolboy letter-scene and I'm looking forward to Shallow again, in the hope that I may have forgotten John Barton's intonations.
	www.mckellen.com /stage/aws/program/15.htm (786 words)

	essays research papers - shakespeare coriolanus quote summary
		Coriolanus longs to encounter Aufidius man-to-man. Aufidius, on his end, welcomes Coriolanus to his side He goes so far as to say that his passion for Coriolanus is as great as his love for the "maid I married".
		When Coriolanus is disgraced by the political system he shows a lot of aggression toward authority.
		Coriolanus should have turned his back on Rome when he had the chance.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=85539 (592 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		"Coriolanus," Shakespeare's play about a Roman hero whose personal pride outfaces the common good, will be presented by the School of Drama for a limited run Jan. 23-Feb. 1.
		Set in the early days of the Roman Republic, "Coriolanus" follows the transformation of the great Roman warrior from mother-driven hero to reluctant politician and, finally, to enemy of the state.
		In Germany in the 1930s, Coriolanus was presented as a man of "valor and heroism," and compared favorably to Hitler; while in 1935, the Maly Theatre in Moscow called Coriolanus "a superman who detached himself from the people and betrayed them." Following World War II, the American occupying force banned the play in Germany.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v31.n15/story15.html (520 words)

	Coriolanus — Infoplease.com
		William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Coriolanus - We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
		Coriolanus, the Union controversy, and access to the Royal Person.(Critical Essay)
		English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0813557.html (208 words)

	Coriolanus at Absolute Shakespeare
		Coriolanus, meaning "conqueror of Corioli" tells the story of a Caius Marcius, a heroic Roman soldier in the 5th Century BC who gains this name for a victory at Corioli.
		The Romans try to convince Caius Marcius not to attack, old friend Menenius failing to dissuade the angry soldier.
		Volumnia, playing on Caius Marcius' love for his wife Virgilia and his son, and on bended knee, however is more successful, convincing her son to make peace rather than war.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /plays/coriolanus/coriolanus.htm (480 words)

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