...Edwin Honig Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SEJANUS AND CORIOLANUS: A STUDY IN ALIENATION By EDWINHONIG Coriolanus He would not answer to; forbad all names; He was a kind of nothing, titleless...

... and derided his two tragic heroes, Timon and Coriolanus. Campbell’s own detestation of these two is obvious. Shakespeare’s detestation is quite another matter. Never in the heyday of so-called romantic criticism has anything more subjective been developed under the guise of scholarship...

... undertakes to review certain theories of poetry and of the function of scholarship in order to define his own approach to the study of the political questions raised by the study of the Cade scenes in the second part of Henry VI and by Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. The very subject of the study...

..., especially self-devouring monsters, or cannibals (p. 226). All four items, Chambers noted, are found in the scene from More and in Troilus and Cressida, I.iii. Items (a), (b), and (c) occur in or near Richard 11, 1V.i; items (c) and (d) in King Lear, 1V.ii; items (a) and (d) in Coriolanus, 1.i...

..., and for deuocion to god. . . nedeth he no rnanne to coumforte him.. . wherein if any doubte aryse, counsayle nedeth and not comfort. (Book Two, Chapter Four)‘ Coriolanus does not bottle up his grief when he is banished In peril of precipitation From off the Rock...

.... This volume is an intensive study of the imagery of Julius Caesar, Antorty aid Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. The author conceives of imagery as including the nonverbal resources of the theater : costume, stage directions, and illustrative action of characters. His position is that previous studies...

... Shake- speare’s Coriolanus as a subject for adaptation.3 Brecht’s intention was to recast the plot so that it would be favorable to the plebeians in their insurrection and, by showing class conflict at work, helpful to their modern equivalents. At least on one level, the peasants and artisans...

... they apply the familiar but usually unexamined epi- thet of “Roman.” One well-known authority, denying that the plays manifest any internal unifying principle, has maintained that Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus are related merely by their having a common source in Plutarch...

... : Harvard University Press, 1961. Pp. 250. $4.75. This volume is an intensive study of the imagery of Julius Caesar, Antorty aid Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. The author conceives of imagery as including the nonverbal resources of the theater : costume, stage directions, and illustrative action...

..., quite reasonably, that Shakespeare and Chapman knew and responded to each other’s writing, and this premise dictates a chronological sequence of consideration: the Iliads, Troilus, Bussy, Antony, Byron, and Coriolanus. This is not, however, exclusively a study of influence between two authors...

... and moral positions of the protagonists of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, OtheZlo, Coriolanus, and Antony and CZeopatra. He works within the tradition of psychological criticism. Tautly assuming that Shakespeare can be read as a philosophical poet, he uses the language of current concern...

.... Phillips in his opening chapter, all contain the analogical argument. The Coriolanus passage, for example, is the well known fable of the belly and the members from which Menenius asks the plebeians to deduce that they, who are like the body’s members, must subordinate themselves to the senate...

... in a comparison of Othello and Coriolanus (p. 77) which is supposed to illustrate them: Coriolanus is more restrained than Othello, but is it more “literary,” more mimetic, more referential? Fortunately, in this chapter and elsewhere, even in the rela- tively weak fifth chapter (on operatic snobbery...

... and Cressidu (I, 3, 101 ff See also the passage in Coriolanus on the body’s members rebelling against the belly (I, 1, 99 ff 2 Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays, Everyman edition, p. 57. *Democratic Yistus, in Complete Prose Wiks (Putnam, 1902), V, p. 90. 487...

... of the images of Caesar as private man and public figure. He emphasizes the magnitude of the issues in Antony and Cleopatrb and discusses the “heightening” of Cleo- patra and the imagery of dissolution associated with Antony’s downward course after Actium. Coriolanus is viewed as an image of isolation...

..., using for example E. C. Pettet’s contribution to this year’s Survey, ‘‘Coriolanus and the Midlands Insurrection of 1607.” Less satisfactory to this reviewer are J. M. Nosworthy’s “Hainlct and the Player Who Could Not Keep Counsel” and C. Walter Hodges’ “Unworthy Scaffolds : A Theory...

... to the situations and events; it helps bind the play into a dramatic whole; it is “a form of imaging and conceiving things” (p. 98). For Hamlet it becomes the center of a special language which, among other things, denies the picture of him as an abstract dreamer. In Coriolanus the imagery is a means...

... of the Cade scenes in the second part of Henry VI and by Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. The very subject of the study, as Professor Stirling observes, makes a modern scholar peculiarly conscious of his own assumptions. Many students of Shakespeare are rather anxiously led to ask of the plays...

... to this year’s Survey, ‘‘Coriolanus and the Midlands Insurrection of 1607.” Less satisfactory to this reviewer are J. M. Nosworthy’s “Hainlct and the Player Who Could Not Keep Counsel” and C. Walter Hodges’ “Unworthy Scaffolds : A Theory for the Reconstriiction of Elizabethan Playhouses...

... in his com- ment on Coriolanus’s “0mother, mother!” as “one of the great speaking si- lences in Shakespeare” (p. 370). Only in King Lear-as the author notes on the final page-does “the incli- nation toward the saintly image” (p. 420) become more evident and more constant. This appears...