Coriolanus

Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 1

David George

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780826458209
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847141163
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Volumes in this series trace the course of Shakespeare criticism, play-by-play, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period. The focus of the documentary material is from the late 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. Thus the Series makes a major contribution to our understanding of the plays and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticsm as they have developed from century to century. The introduction to each volume constitutes an important chapter of literary history, tracing the entire critical career of each play from the beginnings to the present day.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 Piety overcomes anger, [1687]
• 2 The rules of decorum, 1710
• 3 Truly great and truly Roman, 1721
• 4 Not only the Spirit, but Manners, of the Romans, 1723
• 5 Much my Favourite, 1730
• 6 Reasoning up to the Truth of History, 1733
• 7 Bred in the court of Nero, 1746
• 8 Ill calculated for representation, 1755
• 9 The petty cavils of petty minds, 1765
• 10 The good sense and shrewd wit of Mencnius, 1765–85
• 11 Heroism of a savage kind, 1774
• 12 He becomes a man, at last, 1775
• 13 The solemn should be kept apart from the ludicrous, 1784
• 14 Neither base nor treacherous, 1791
• 15 Scarce a master of numbers, 1792
• 16 Rough, unpleasant, and perhaps disgusting character, 1795
• 17 Those virtuous tribunes, 1796
• 18 He vomits blasphemy, 1811
• 19 Shakspeare's merry humour, 1815
• 20 Severe sublimity of his character, 1817
• 21 Pretensions, arrogance, and absurdity, 1817
• 22 Philosophic impartiality, 1818–19
• 23 Hazlitt's concentrated venom, 1818
• 24 To one class of persons only is he proud, 1824
• 25 The very spirit of classical antiquity, 1832
• 26 The grandeur of sculpture, 1837–9
• 27 Stern, contemptuous, and unpopular, 1840
• 28 Rottenness of popular rule, 1846
• 29 The stuff of a great general, 1849
• 30 So finely blended, 1851
• 31 Great virtues as well as great faults, 1855
• 32 Virgilia, perfect type of wife and mother, 1855-94
• 33 A play of arguments and intercessions, 1856
• 34 Class-aggrandizement, 1863
• 35 His virtues and his faults to extremes, 1863
• 36 Incarnated, uncompromising feudalism, 1871
• 37 His towering arrogance, 1872
• 38 False to himself, 1873
• 39 The man rises with his fall, 1875
• 40 Partizan feelings and acts, 1876
• 41 The pure embodiment of the aristocratic principle, 1876
• 42 The grandest woman in Shakspcre, 1877
• 43 Still a mystery, 1877
• 44 Coriolanus' two sides, good and bad, 1880
• 45 Volumnia Victrix, 1880
• 46 Mary Arden Shakespeare as Volumnia, 1886
• 47 Volumnia's self-control and fiery impulsiveness, 1887
• 48 Tragic through his virtues, 1887
• 49 A vindication of natural law, 1889
• 50 Patrician Rome has conquered, 1889
• 51 A pride Titanic, 1891
• 52 A very inferior Satan, 1893
• 53 A passionate excess of inherently noble traits, 1894
• 54 A gigantic will and character, 1896
• 55 War as a gigantic duel, 1896
• 56 The subtle sin of egoism, 1898
• 57 An autocratically-minded poet, 1899
• 58 The greatest of Shakespear's comedies, 1903
• 59 A noble, even a lovable, being, 1904
• 60 Shakespeare the Nemesis, 1905
• 61 The sin of pride, 1906
• 62 The basest of human creatures, 1907
• 63 The victim of his own passion, 1910
• 64 One of the greatest of Shakespeare's creations, 1911
• 65 A huge boy, 1912
• 66 Only ward-politics, 1913
• 67 An uncowardly Pistol, 1922
• 68 The statue of a demi-god cast in bronze, 1922
• 69 Plato's man of impulse, 1922
• 70 The golden silence of Virgilia, 1922
• 71 His ungovernable tongue, 1922
• 72 Volumnia's false idea of greatness, 1924
• 73 The super-snob, 1927
• 74 Love rules this metallic world, 1931
• 75 Unequivocally condemned, 1936
• 76 His rather absurd and ironic death, 1937
• 77 Heroic fidelity to an ideal, 1939
• 78 The spark is missing, ignition fails, 1940
• 79 A big spirit who will not stoop to deceit, 1940
• NOTES
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX