Coriolanus key revision quotes by https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches Key evidence for key approaches. Add your best quotes from the play and from different intepretations (including staging) en-us 2018-03-17 14:13:24 UTC 2023-02-19 20:34:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png 'O me alone! Make you a sword of me?' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470392 Coriolanus
Isolates himself from the majority, believes he is above them.
--> Jackson 2017 RSC version, climbs the ladder, physically raises himself up]]> 2018-03-21 12:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470392 Volumnia and homeric myth floramoreau666 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470474 The breasts of Hecuba,
When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovlier
Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood..."]]> 2018-03-21 12:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470474 Coriolanus weekesy9 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470494 O, me alone! make you a sword of me?]]> 2018-03-21 12:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470494 Volumnia mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470580 'Angers my meat; I sup upon myself and so shall starve with feeding.']]> 2018-03-21 12:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470580 'Name not the god thou boy of tears! jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470769 Aufidius 
An idea of Coriolanus believing himself to be godlike - Aufidius undermines his self imposed station.]]> 2018-03-21 12:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470769 was ever a man as proud as this martius richardsc https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470894 2018-03-21 12:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470894 'Genuine tragedies in the world areconflicts between two rights' (Hegel) johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470920 2018-03-21 12:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470920 mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470943  Psychoanalytic- Janet Adelman sees eating as central image of play with Volumnia as non-nurturing mother]]> 2018-03-21 12:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244470943 'The man is noble and his fame fold in the orb oath earth' johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471143 2018-03-21 12:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471143 'He cannot temperately transport his honours.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471164 2018-03-21 12:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471164 the blood I drop is rather physical richardsc https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471166 2018-03-21 12:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471166 mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471188  ‘thou valiantness was mine, thou suck’dst from me, but owe thy pride thyself’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471188 "Our virtues lie in the interpretations of the time" https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471223 -Aufidius
James and Seb]]> 2018-03-21 12:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471223 'He did it to please his mother and be partly proud.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471244 2018-03-21 12:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471244 Coppelia Kahn mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471346 gender as construction and Shakespeare exposing how man is made, with women as the basic to the making of a roman Volumnia plays centripetal role, ‘pertinent at every moment to the tragic action’ 
‘the mother who lives only through her son survives while he is sacrificed so that she and the city with which she identifies may live.’ 
]]> 2018-03-21 12:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471346 'Coriolanus has to learn that you cannot fight an abstraction: the Rome you attack is made up of individuals' (HJ Oliver) johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471523 2018-03-21 12:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471523 Menenius mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471597 ‘loved me above the measure of a father; nay, godded me indeed’]]> 2018-03-21 12:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471597 Menenius weekesy9 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471604 His nature is too noble for this world ..... His heart's his mouth]]> 2018-03-21 12:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471604 Brutus floramoreau666 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471629 "He is grown too proud to be so valiant"]]> 2018-03-21 12:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471629 A conflict between people and nobles, or democracy and aristocracy... Shakespeare, it is thought, sides against the people richardsc https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471679 AC Bradely]]> 2018-03-21 12:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471679 mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471707  ‘all bond and privilege of nature, break!’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471707 'breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk' johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471769 2018-03-21 12:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471769 HJ Oliver mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471858 ‘Coriolanus has to learn that you cannot fight an abstraction: the Rome you attack is made up of individuals.']]> 2018-03-21 12:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471858 Volumnia III.II floramoreau666 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471969 "Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me"]]> 2018-03-21 12:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244471969 Aufidius mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472057  ‘commanding peace evn with the same austerity and garb as he controll’d the war’ 

]]> 2018-03-21 12:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472057 'loved me above the measure of a father; nay, nodded me indeed' johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472088 2018-03-21 12:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472088 "Like a thing made by some other deity of nature" https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472113 - Cominius 
James and Seb]]> 2018-03-21 12:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472113 mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472247  ‘you speak o’the people, as if you were a god to punish, not a man of their infirmity’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472247 'As if Olympus to a molehill should in supplication nod.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472254 Coriolanus]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472254 'the most noble mother of the world' johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472341 2018-03-21 12:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472341 Coriolanus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472389  ‘custom call me to’t: what custom will, in all things should we do’t’ 
‘we nourish 
]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472389 Coriolanus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472492  ‘we nourish ‘gainst our senate the cockle of rebellion’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472492 Harold Bloom (AO5) weekesy9 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472514 Coriolanus 'lacked interiority'' 
Possibly due to his upbringing. Significant as this is his tragic flaw (Hamartia)]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472514 "Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that which they have gave given to beggars"-Coriolanus https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472538 James and Seb]]> 2018-03-21 12:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472538 Coriolanus Act I mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472606  ‘What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues, that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?’ 
 ‘What would you have, you curs that like not peace nor war?’ 
]]> 2018-03-21 12:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472606 'He is grown too proud to be so valiant.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472738 Brutus]]> 2018-03-21 12:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472738 Aufidius mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472774  ‘to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature…could not carry his honors even’]]> 2018-03-21 12:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472774 Cominus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472930 ‘he is their god: he leads them like a thing made by some other deity than nature, that shapes man better’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472930 'Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472953 Hegel]]> 2018-03-21 12:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244472953 Ralph Fiennes weekesy9 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473049 Coriolanus was a 'confrontational protagonist' with 'extreme integrity'.]]> 2018-03-21 12:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473049 Aufidius having just stood on body as kills Coriolanus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473140 ‘My rage is gone; and I am struck with sorrow….Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473140 'It is held that valour is the cheapest virtue, and most dignifies the haver: if it be, the man I speak of cannot be singly counterpoised' (Cominius) johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473259 2018-03-21 12:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473259 First servant IV. floramoreau666 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473302 "Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent."
A significant problem with the Roman ideal seems to be their inability to function in peacetime. Although virtus means Martius can perform to the highest ability in war, it undoubtedly hinders his ability to behave suitably in peacetime.]]> 2018-03-21 12:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473302 Cominus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473316 ‘It is held that valour is the cheifest virtue, and most dignifies the haver: if it be, the man I speak of cannot be singly counterpoised.’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473316 Harold Bloom (AO5) weekesy9 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473663 'An overgrown child... at best a disaster waiting to happen'. ]]> 2018-03-21 12:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473663 'Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot put on the gown.' jessie_inglisjones https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473747 Coriolanus]]> 2018-03-21 12:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473747 Sean O'Casey 1923 mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473783 ‘To the people the end of life is the life created for them; to the poet the end of life is the life that he creates for himself; life has a stifling grip upon the people’s throat- it is the poet’s musician.’ ]]> 2018-03-21 12:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473783 "Your are too absolute; therein you can never be too noble" https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473813 -Volumnia
James and Seb]]> 2018-03-21 12:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244473813 Volumnia mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244474732 'The son, the husband and the father tearing
His country's bowels out.']]> 2018-03-21 12:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244474732 Volumnia mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244475284 *he holds her by the hand, silent*]]> 2018-03-21 12:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244475284 'I would dissemble with my nature where my fortunes and my friends at stake require I should do so in honour. I am in this your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles' johnsone24 https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244476134 2018-03-21 12:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244476134 Coriolanus mccormacko https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244476792 'It is a part I shall blush in acting'

]]> 2018-03-21 12:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244476792 jrfa https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244615067 In response to Orla's post, note here the sign hanging outside the Globe Theatre.... Hercules is shown bearing the whole world. The relatively new professional theatres provided the conceit of play-acting, which foregrounds what Bate calls 'the performative' aspects of human experience. It is a conceit, or extended metaphor, often used in Shakespeare's 'theatre poetry' - after all, is not natural that he would reach for material closest to him? ]]> 2018-03-21 16:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/244615067 Post here jrfa https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/252084521 2018-04-16 11:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jrfa/CoriolanusApproaches/wish/252084521