| | Melic Review Spring 2002 CEChaffin |
 | | The former depicts a rare achievement in Shakespeare: mature, adult love. |
 | | The latter presents Shakespeare's most fully realized female character, Volumna, an older woman wise to both virtue and policy in the best traditions of Rome. |
 | | As an example note Volumna's advice to Coriolanus as he prepares to appear before the commoners in order to qualify as senator a public requirement essentially distasteful to this seasoned Roman general, who wears thirty scars for badges but refuses to display them to the general public for approbation: |
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