Coriolanus (Vol. 30) | Hardin Craig (essay date 1966)
Hardin Craig (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "Coriolanus: Interpretation," in Pacific Coast Studies in Shakespeare, edited by Waldo F. McNeir and Thelma N. Greenfield, University of Oregon Books, 1966, pp. 199-209.
[In the following essay, Craig discusses Coriolanus with regard to Plutarch's description of the events and Shakespeare's understanding of class structure.]
There is a passage in Julius Caesar of great interest and importance, since it gives expression to a tragic idea, new to Shakespeare, that found expression in later plays. The passage is as follows:
Clitus. Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying
here.
Brutus. Farewell to you; and you; and you,
Volumnius.
Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;
Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,
My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
I found no man but he was true to me.
I shall have glory by this...
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