Premium Content Volumnia’s Dog: The Roman Classical Conditioning of Coriolanus
By Matthew Jeffrey Kessler - March 18, 2009
In William Shakespeare’s final tragedy Coriolanus, plebeians, senators, soldiers, enemies, and even some immediate family struggle in their attempts to indentify and characterize the essence of Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Coriolanus himself struggles for much of the final two acts of the play, trying out an identity that he ultimately realizes to be…
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