Annotated Bibliography

Using some of the outlets that Professor Burton outlined I had a lot of luck finding some really good source material.

1. Langis, Unhae. Coriolanus: "Inordinate Passions and Powers in Personal and Political Governance"
              Comparative Drama, V. 44.1 (2010). p 27.
--> William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus vividly dramatizes a notion of moderation that is faithful to the Aristotelian ethical theory of the mean as a situational virtue, which incorporates both excessive affect and action. The lack of virtuous moderation in Coriolanus himself, Rome's first citizen, mirrors the collective immoderation of the whole polity

2. Dittman, Joo Young. "Tear him to pieces": De-Suturing Masculinity in "Coriolanus".
              Comparative Drama. V. 90.6 (2006). p653-672
--> The construction and deconstruction of the ideology of masculinity in William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus and early modern culture is examined. The process by which masculinity is constructed as an ideological fiction in early modern England led to its role in socio-symbolic structures as well as subject formations. 

3.Rich, John. War and Society in the Roman World. London: Rutledge. 1993
       Explores the wider social context of war, focusing on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body; from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, to the Late Empire, and the Roman army's eventual failure.

4. Kuzner. James. Unbuilding the City: Coriolanus and the Birth of Republican Rome.  
            Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol 58.2 (2007) pp. 174-99.
    Unbuilding the City" considers the issue of republicanism in Coriolanus criticism and in early modern studies more generally, with special emphasis on how this issue relates to questions about bounded self-hood, thought to be emerging in early modernity. The essay argues against pro republican readings of the play—and against norms associated with the bounded self—by demonstrating the salience to the play of recent theory, particularly that of Giorgio Agamben and Leo Bersani. And although Coriolanus is not a prorepublican or protoliberal document, it is still a politically viable one; if the play exhibits skepticism about bounded selfhood, it also exhibits investment in forms of self-undoing, especially in the representation of Coriolanus himself.

5. Polka, Brayton. Coriolanus and the Roman World of Contradiction: A Paradoxical World 
            Elsewhere. The European Legacy, Vol 15.2 (2010) pp. 171-94.
   This study argues that Shakespeare's aim in Coriolanus is twofold: (1) to depict the ancient world of Rome as dominated by contradiction; and (2) to signal to us moderns, in the biblical tradition, that we can comprehend or, in other words, interpret the contradictory world of the ancients solely on the basis of a paradoxical world elsewhere, beyond contradiction.

6.  Adelman, Janet. "'Anger's My Meat': Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus," in  
            Shakespeare: Pattern of Excelling Nature, edited by David Bevington and Jay L. Halio,
            University of Delaware Press, 1978, pp. 108-24.
     Adelman examines the psychology of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play of the same name, illuminating his desire for masculine self-sufficiency and dependency on his mother.

7. Alvis, John. Coriolanus and Aristotle's Magnanimous Man Reconsidered. Interpretation: A
          Journal of Political Philosophy,  Vol 7.3 (1978) pp. 4-28.
       Argues for Coriolanus' kinship with the classical ideal of the superlatively honorable man developed by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, but concludes that Coriolanus' tragedy resides in his failure to encompass the elusive ideal of the Ethics.

8. Alvarez Faedo, María José."Re-Visions of Volumnia's Motherhood".  Revista alicantina de 
             estudios ingleses. Vol 15 (2002). pp. 23-37.
      Explores the concept of motherhood in Coriolanus from two perspectives: the psychoanalytic and the political.