Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Liam E. Semler is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia, and has been a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the Universities of Massachusetts, Nottingham, Warwick and Essex. He leads the Better Strangers project which hosts the Shakespeare Reloaded website. He is author of Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the System (2013) and The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts (1998), and editor of The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 (2019) and Eliza’s Babes; Or The Virgin’s Offering (1652): A Critical Edition (2001).

List of Figures and Tables
Series Introduction
Notes on Contributors
Timeline

Introduction
Liam E. Semler (The University of Sydney, Australia)

1. The Critical Backstory
Huw Griffiths (The University of Sydney, Australia)

2. Performance History
Robert Ormsby (Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)

3. The State of the Art
Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

4. New Directions: Putting Tongues in Wounds: The Search for an Honest Body in Coriolanus
Anna Kamaralli (Independent Scholar)

5. New Directions: ‘As if a man were author of himself’: Fantasies of Omnipotence and Autonomy
Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)

6. New Directions: Hegel’s Rome and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – Grounds for Tragedy
Jennifer Ann Bates (Duquesne University, USA)

7. New Directions: Coriolanus and the Datasphere
Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia)

8. ‘Teach my mind’: Approaches and Resources for the Coriolanus Classroom
Claire Hansen (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)

Notes
Bibliography
Index