Coriolanus

Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Introduction....Pages 10-12
Contextual approaches....Pages 13-17
Textual and formal approaches: character and imagery....Pages 17-31
Religious, sociological and anthropological approaches....Pages 31-43
Interdisciplinary approaches....Pages 43-50
Theatre approaches: performance....Pages 50-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-60
Post-modernist theory or Jacobean theatre of mirrors?....Pages 59-61
Staging and some conventions....Pages 61-63
The crowd....Pages 63-64
Seven scenes of warfare: Act i.iv–x....Pages 64-66
Distancing....Pages 66-66
An historical style: the house of mirrors....Pages 66-67
The isolated hero’s tragedy....Pages 67-68
The hero, society and honour....Pages 68-72
Shakespeare’s recurrent themes and techniques....Pages 72-75
Language and acting as deception....Pages 75-75
Revelations of character....Pages 76-76
Coriolanus and his mother....Pages 76-80
Persuasion and dependency....Pages 80-81
Crying....Pages 82-83
Front Matter....Pages 59-60
Sex, love and bonding....Pages 83-84
The virgin warrior: fear of contamination....Pages 84-85
The price of love: unclean mouths....Pages 85-87
Pretending love: inconstancy....Pages 87-88
The sexuality of battle....Pages 88-89
The sexuality of domination....Pages 89-90
Power....Pages 90-93
Act v.vi....Pages 93-95
Coriolanus’ death....Pages 95-97
Comedy?....Pages 97-98
The politics of neo-classicism....Pages 98-100
Social context....Pages 100-103
Coriolanus and monarchy....Pages 103-104
Conclusion....Pages 104-107
Back Matter....Pages 108-113