Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beyond Shallow and Silence
- 2 Just War Theory and Shakespeare
- 3 Shakespeare on Civil and Dynastic Wars
- 4 Foreign War
- 5 War and the Classical World
- 6 “The Question of These Wars”
- 7 Instrumentalizing Anger
- 8 War and Eros
- 9 Shakespeare’s Language and the Rhetoric of War
- 10 Staging Shakespeare’s Wars in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 11 Reading Shakespeare’s Wars on Film
- 12 Shakespeare and World War II
- 13 Henry V and the Pleasures of War
- 14 Macbeth and Trauma
- 15 Coriolanus and the Use of Power
- Index
- References
15 - Coriolanus and the Use of Power
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beyond Shallow and Silence
- 2 Just War Theory and Shakespeare
- 3 Shakespeare on Civil and Dynastic Wars
- 4 Foreign War
- 5 War and the Classical World
- 6 “The Question of These Wars”
- 7 Instrumentalizing Anger
- 8 War and Eros
- 9 Shakespeare’s Language and the Rhetoric of War
- 10 Staging Shakespeare’s Wars in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 11 Reading Shakespeare’s Wars on Film
- 12 Shakespeare and World War II
- 13 Henry V and the Pleasures of War
- 14 Macbeth and Trauma
- 15 Coriolanus and the Use of Power
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter considers the contemporary social and military context of the composition of Coriolanus including civil unrest, governance, education, the influence of the classical world, and later conjecture that Shakespeare himself was a soldier. In considering the performance of the play and its afterlives, attention is paid to stage directions, sound, character, and the subsequent adaptation and appropriation of Coriolanus and his mother in other media – art, poetry, film – that focus on the military, civil, personal, and political conflicts at the heart of the play.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War , pp. 256 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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