Alvis, John. "Coriolanus and Aristotle's Magnanimous Man Reconsidered." Interpretation 7, No. 3 (September 1978): 4-28.

Claims that Coriolanus typifies the classical ideal of the honorable man as characterized in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics.

Coote, Stephen. Coriolanus. London: Penguin Books, 1992, 98 p.

Interprets Coriolanus as demonstrating Shakespeare's concern with man as a political animal and with the confrontational nature of language.

Huffman, Clifford Chalmers. Coriolanus in Context. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1971, 260 p.

Investigates the English and Italian sources that influenced Shakespeare's Coriolanus and explicates the play's commentary on Jacobean England.

King, Bruce. Coriolanus. London: Macmillan, 1989, 113 p.

Surveys several different ways of approaching Coriolanus and various methodological problems that confront the critic.

Miller, Shannon. "Topicality and Subversion in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 32, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 287-310.

Contends that, in Coriolanus, Shakespeare criticizes the British monarchy and "pave[s] the way for rebellion against Carolinian absolutism."

Miola, Robert S. "Coriolanus: Rome and the Self." In Shakespeare's Rome, pp. 164-205. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Claims that Coriolanus depicts Rome as the center of both noble activity and petty political squabbling.

Poole, Adrian. Coriolanus. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988, 140 p.

Examines Coriolanus scene by scene, paying particular attention to the development of Coriolanus's character and how the play comments on the literary/ critical enterprise itself.

Smith, Lacy B. "Coriolanus and the State." Northwestern University Tri-Quarterly II, No. 3 (Spring 1960): 37-38.

Contends that the Roman political arena in Coriolanus represents the political and intellectual culture of Jacobean England.

Sorge, Thomas. "The Failure of Orthodoxy in Coriolanus." In Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, edited by Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor, pp. 225-41. New York: Methuen, 1987.

Considers Coriolanus to be fundamentally a metaphorical depiction of the ideological instability and conflict in Shakespeare's England.

Tennenhouse, Leonard. "Coriolanus: History and the Crisis of Semantic Order." Comparative Drama 10, No. 4 (Winter 1976-77): 328-46.

Analyzes the dramatic structure of Coriolanus, claiming that the play is unique among Shakespeare's tragedies in that it ends without the restoration of political order.

Velz, John W. "Cracking Strong Curbs Asunder: Roman Destiny and the Roman Hero in Coriolanus." English Literary Renaissance 13, No. 1 (Winter 1983): 58-69.

Argues that, rather than being based primarily on Plutarch, Coriolanus shows closer affinities to Virgil's philosophy of politics and history.

Vickers, Brian. "Coriolanus and the Demons of Politics." In Returning to Shakespeare, pp. 135-93. London: Routledge, 1989.

Argues that Shakespeare's Coriolanus vilifies both the plebeians and the patricians.

Waith, Eugene M. "Coriolanus." In The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden, pp. 121-43. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.

Insists that Coriolanus combines a godlike stature with a profound hatred of Rome, thus eliciting ambivalent responses from readers.

Weckermann, Hans-Júrgen. "Coriolanus: The Failure of the Autonomous Individual." In Shakespeare Text Language Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack, edited by Bernhard Fabian, pp. 334-50. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidman, 1987.

Argues that Coriolanus's tragic downfall is precipitated by his inflexible unsociability.

Zeeveld, W. Gordon. "'Coriolanus' and Jacobean Politics." Modern Language Review LVII, No. 3 (1962): 321-34.

Claims that Shakespeare self-consciously crafted Coriolanus as a criticism of the political quarrelling between King James I and the English parliament.