... Whitehead Alfred North William Shakespeare Freedom Agency Humoralism Coriolanus samuel johnson said that reading Shakespeare would help ‘a confessor predict the progress of the passions’. ¹ Shakespeare’s works have always been a prime location of powerful and intense feeling...

...This chapter explores the vulnerability of maternity and the danger for the family that proceeds from it in the context of high tragedy, through readings of Hamlet and Coriolanus. Both plays, in their complex dealings with a son's relationship to his mother...