First published in 2004, David George's majestic compendium of criticism relating to Shakespeare's Coriolanus was recognised as a major contribution to teaching and scholarship on the play. This new edition has been updated with a new supplementary introduction by the author tracing criticism on the play since that first publication, including materialist, psychoanalytic and feminist readings, as well as further readings of the play's politics. As with all titles in the series, this edition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the substantial introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

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Publisher

The Arden Shakespeare

Year

2022

ISBN

9781350168381

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism of Shakespeare

Index

Literature

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
General editor’s preface
General editors’ preface to the revised editions
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the revised edition: Coriolanus (1941–2018)
Introduction
Chapter 1: [S. Pendarves], piety overcomes anger: [1687]
Chapter 2: Charles Gildon, the rules of decorum: 1710
Chapter 3: John Dennis, truly great and truly Roman: 1721
Chapter 4: Alexander Pope, not only the Spirit, but Manners, of the Romans: 1723
Chapter 5: Lewis Theobald, much my Favourite: 1730
Chapter 6: William Warburton, reasoning up to the Truth of History: 1733
Chapter 7: John Upton, bred in the court of Nero: 1746
Chapter 8: Thomas Sheridan, ill calculated for representation: 1755
Chapter 9: Samuel Johnson, the petty cavils of petty minds: 1765
Chapter 10: Thomas Davies, the good sense and shrewd wit of Menenius: 1765–85
Chapter 11: Francis Gentleman, heroism of a savage kind: 1774
Chapter 12: Elizabeth Griffith, he becomes a man, at last: 1775
Chapter 13: William Richardson, the solemn should be kept apart from the ludicrous: 1784
Chapter 14: James Anderson, neither base nor treacherous: 1791
Chapter 15: James Hurdis, scarce a master of numbers: 1792
Chapter 16: Wolstenholme Parr, rough, unpleasant, and perhaps disgusting character: 1795
Chapter 17: John Thelwall, those virtuous tribunes: 1796
Chapter 18: A London newspaper, he vomits blasphemy: 21 December 1811
Chapter 19: Augustus Wilhelm von Schlegel, Shakspeare’s merry humour: 1815
Chapter 20: Nathan Drake, severe sublimity of his character: 1817
Chapter 21: William Hazlitt, pretensions, arrogance, and absurdity: 1817
Chapter 22: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, philosophic impartiality: 1818–19
Chapter 23: William Gifford, Hazlitt’s concentrated venom: 1818
Chapter 24: Augustine Skottowe, to one class of persons only is he proud: 1824
Chapter 25: Anna Jameson, the very spirit of classical antiquity: 1832
Chapter 26: Henry Hallam, the grandeur of sculpture: 1837–9
Chapter 27: Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, stern, contemptuous, and unpopular: 1840
Chapter 28: Hermann Ulrici, rottenness of popular rule: 1846
Chapter 29: Charles Knight, the stuff of a great general: 1849
Chapter 30: Hartley Coleridge, so finely blended: 1851
Chapter 31: H. N. Hudson, great virtues as well as great faults: 1855
Chapter 32: John Ruskin, Virgilia, perfect type of wife and mother: 1855–94
Chapter 33: William Watkiss Lloyd, a play of arguments and intercessions: 1856
Chapter 34: Charles Cowden Clarke, class-aggrandizement: 1863
Chapter 35: Georg Gottfried Gervinus, his virtues and his faults to extremes: 1863
Chapter 36: Walt Whitman, incarnated, uncompromising feudalism: 1871
Chapter 37: H. N. Hudson, his towering arrogance: 1872
Chapter 38: Robert Whitelaw, false to himself: 1873
Chapter 39: Edward Dowden, the man rises with his fall: 1875
Chapter 40: Hiram Corson, partizan feelings and acts: 1876
Chapter 41: Hermann Ulrici, the pure embodiment of the aristocratic principle: 1876
Chapter 42: F. J. Furnivall, the grandest woman in Shakspere: 1877
Chapter 43: Denton Snider, still a mystery: 1877
Chapter 44: Paul Stapfer, Coriolanus’ two sides, good and bad: 1880
Chapter 45: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Volumnia Victrix: 1880
Chapter 46: Frederick Gard Fleay, Mary Arden Shakespeare as Volumnia: 1886
Chapter 47: Grace Latham, Volumnia’s self-control and fiery impulsiveness: 1887
Chapter 48: Denton Snider, tragic through his virtues : 1887
Chapter 49: H. C. Beeching, a vindication of natural law: 1889
Chapter 50: Ida M. Street, patrician Rome has conquered: 1889
Chapter 51: Kenneth Deighton, a pride Titanic: 1891
Chapter 52: James T. Foard, a very inferior Satan: 1893
Chapter 53: Barrett Wendell, a passionate excess of inherently noble traits: 1894
Chapter 54: Ella Adams Moore, a gigantic will and character: 1896
Chapter 55: Frederick Boas, war as a gigantic duel: 1896
Chapter 56: Edmund K. Chambers, the subtle sin of egoism: 1898
Chapter 57: Georg Brandes, an autocratically-minded poet: 1899
Chapter 58: George Bernard Shaw, the greatest of Shakespear’s comedies: 1903
Chapter 59: Andrew Cecil Bradley, a noble, even a lovable, being: 1904
Chapter 60: Stopford Augustus Brooke, Shakespeare the Nemesis: 1905
Chapter 61: William Miller, the sin of pride: 1906
Chapter 62: George Pierce Baker, the basest of human creatures: 1907
Chapter 63: Mungo W. MacCallum, the victim of his own passion: 1910
Chapter 64: John Masefield, one of the greatest of Shakespeare’s creations: 1911
Chapter 65: Andrew Cecil Bradley, a huge boy: 1912
Chapter 66: Brander Matthews, only ward-politics: 1913
Chapter 67: George Hookham, an uncowardly Pistol: 1922
Chapter 68: Lytton Strachey, the statue of a demi-god cast in bronze: 1922
Chapter 69: [John Middleton Murry], Plato’s man of impulse: 1922
Chapter 70: John Middleton Murry, the golden silence of Virgilia: 1922
Chapter 71: W. J. Craig and R. H. Case, his ungovernable tongue: 1922
Chapter 72: Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Volumnia’s false idea of greatness: 1924
Chapter 73: Wyndham Lewis, the super-snob: 1927
Chapter 74: G. Wilson Knight, love rules this metallic world: 1931
Chapter 75: A. A. Smirnov, unequivocally condemned: 1936
Chapter 76: D. A. Traversi, his rather absurd and ironic death: 1937
Chapter 77: Peter Alexander, heroic fidelity to an ideal: 1939
Chapter 78: Hazelton Spencer, the spark is missing, ignition fails: 1940
Chapter 79: Elmer Edgar Stoll, a big spirit who will not stoop to deceit: 1940
Notes
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