...Coppélia Kahn Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus C OPPELIA KAHN From my mother's sleep I fell into the state. (Jarrell) War is a man's work. The male . .. wants to think that he's fighting for that woman somewhere behind, not up there in the same foxhole with him...

... Identity and the ‘Exchange of Women.’ ” 4 . 1 : 40 - 75 . Hayles N. Katherine . “ Gender Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine Flows .” 4 . 2 : 16 - 44 . Kahn Coppélia . “Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus” 4 . 2 : 154 - 70...

... terms, because they are most at one with the multitude. Macbeth, Coriolanus, Lear, Timon, and Antony actually demon- strate that there is no such thing as an individual who can leave his position...

... initiation, from - say - Coriolanus to Norman Mailer. Businessmen boasted of being "self-made men," and (in a slightly different spirit) Stephen Greenblatt writes of "Renaissance selffashioning" in a book that, without regarding the fact as odd, treats only men. Mafiosi, we are told by popular fiction...

... as Shakespeare’s Mercutio, Malvolio, Angelo, Claudius, Iago, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Timon, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and, from the realm of the his- tories, Richard III. Instead of submitting to communal law, all these char...