Essays on Coriolanus

If one word had to be used to describe the entirety of the performance of Coriolanus at the Douglas Campbell Theatre, dark would be an appropriate choice. Director Dean Paul Gibson didn’t try to tone down the violence in one of Shakespeare’s lesser known tragedies,…

Finding the Middle Ground: Comparing King Lear and Coriolanus as Leaders Emotions have an immense effect on an individual. There is even a legal term to explain when someone’s emotions lead him or her to do heinous things; they simply call it a crime of…

False Autonomy in Coriolanus The question of free will has loitered around in the human psyche since time immemorial. Are we all just constructions of our environment? Did some divine power shape us, mold us along a pre-determined path? Are we ever truly independent from…

The term “Rogue” can be defined as 1: a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. 2: a playfully mischievous person; scamp. 3. A tramp or vagabond. (Dictionary) In Shakespeare’s play Coriolanus, I chose to analyze this term for many reasons. Upon my original reading of this play,…