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 TablesSeries IntroductionNotes on Contributors TimelineIntroduction 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 AutonomyEvelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)6. New Directions: Hegel’s Rome and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – Grounds for TragedyJennifer 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 ClassroomClaire Hansen (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) NotesBibliographyIndex