...-nurse, however, disrupted the influence of the mother over her child. Through the examination of Renaissance midwifery tracts and the representation of Shakespeare's Volumnia in Coriolanus, this article reveals the humoral potency attributed to the breastfeeding Renaissance mother...

... Themistocles Herodotus SVF 3 148 Aristides Aeschines Dinarchus Hyperides Dio Sallust Appian Caesar Aristophanes Xenophon Coriolanus Alcibiades Themistocles Demosthenes Cicero Antony Timoleon Coriolanus This chapter explores the connections between the dearth of remorse displays in ancient...

...This chapter focuses on Britain’s traditional constitution. Caius Martius, the protagonist of Coriolanus, refused to agree to the Roman plebeians’ increasingly vociferous political demands. There were two points pointed out by Martius, first is that Rome is to continue to have a single governing...

...This chapter contrasts Coriolanus’ dramatic austerity with the proliferation of metadrama around Hal and Falstaff. Coriolanus gives Shakespeare the chance to deal with authority and authenticity at a safe historical remove, while Falstaff’s metadrama addresses the relationship between authority...

...This chapter examines the premise of Shakespeare's ancient Rome — civic virtue, or the attachment to the good of the commonwealth. It begins with the analysis of Coriolanus, where civic virtue is in the final stages of its conflict with a warrior aristocracy...

...), Julius Caesar (1599), and Coriolanus (1608), the chapter demonstrates how Shakespeare takes up this technical aspect of theatrical performance to launch a series of meditations on the nature of theatrical “personation” and of the gaps opened in his period’s political imaginary...

... to the people as a political unit. Titus Andronicus reveals life in its magnitude as death-soaked, in the manner of revenge tragedies, but also, and more potently, the multiplicity of life appears as blight registered through negative enumeration in the urban tomb that is Rome. Julius Caesar and Coriolanus...

...This chapter discusses two plays, Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus, and their link to open selfhood. It first presents an alternative in which Coriolanus is a progressive document that plans the transition from models of complete sovereignty...

...Screen adaptations of the Roman plays have given rise to two narrative groupings: Coriolanus and Titus, which have been adapted as individual Shakespearean texts; and Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, which have been...

...This chapter pursues across a wide span of intellectual history reflections on the kind of plebeian political agency so graphic in the opening of Coriolanus. Examining presentations of popular tumult in Shakespeare’s source, Livy, it tracks both Machiavelli’s republican reading...

...0 16 05 1991 2268 Aramian, F. A, [Koriolan]. MS [circa 1980]. Incidental music. Performed to coincide with the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft conference, Weimar, 26 April 1980 (Dramaticheskii teatr im. Sundukiana [of Erevan, USSR]: Ch. Abramian, Coriolanus; L. Oganesian, Volumnia; R...

...0 30 10 1997 The first performances of Kemble’s version of Coriolanus were given at Drury Lane in 1789, with great success. Kemble based his version on one by Thomas Sheridan which borrowed from a play on the same subject by James Thomson. The title role, in which Kemble...

...In this chapter Shklar continues to discuss loyalty conflicts in classical times. She uses the case of the Roman general Coriolanus and a number of classical and modern commentaries on him in order to illustrate further complications arising from different positions taken inconflicts of loyalty...

... and stake which crucially informs Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. Bear-baiting constitutes the key metaphor and scenic pattern of this play, which pits the body politic against a heroic individual who is both the city’s champion and prime antagonist. The hero is presented as an animal signally...

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... The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, King Lear, and All’s Well That Ends Well. antipathy atoms atomism D’Avenant William Digby Kenelm Dryden John pharmakon and pharmaceutical poison Shakespeare William weapon salve Blagrave Joseph Bostocke Richard Charleton...

...), Coriolanus (representations of power and divinity), and Antony and Cleopatra (the Book of Revelation, end of times, and possibilities for transcendence), often in contrastive or antithetical ways. An audience accustomed to Christian interpretations of Ovid's Metamorphoses...

... a forgotten, highly innovative, ethical component of plebiscitary democracy: namely, an ocular model of popular power whose basic features were introduced in Chapter 1. Finally, Section 4.4 turns to two of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, as concrete...

... 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...

...’. The metadramatic acknowledgement of blood as a cosmetic mask recurs in several plays of different genres; admitting stage blood into a rich network of cosmetic significations opens up new possibilities for discussing stage violence that are of particular significance for Shakespeare's Coriolanus...