| O.J. Campbell – C’s weakness before his mother | This repeated quailing before his moher deprives Coriolanus of the dignity every tragic hero must posses |
| O.J. Campbell – arrogance | his arrogant atitude |
| Tom Hiddleston – his hardness | He’s so hard he seems imprenetrable |
| Harold Bloom – lacking in character | He has a lack of interior life |
| Reuben A. Brower – rewards for actions | Coriolanus’ rewards for his deeds, lies in the pure doing of them |
| David Benedict – tragic arrogance | His arrogance becomes … properly tragic |
| Michael Billington – Hiddleston’s interpretation | Hiddleston’s Coriolanus … conveys the hero’s complexity |
| Michael Billington – victim | He is also a victim of idolisation by his militaristic mother |
| Tom Hiddleston – no fear | He lives at the pitch of extremity that many of us would fear to live at. He has no fear of death … and extraordinary physical courage |
| William Farnham – internal struggle | The struggle within him is between his desire for revenge against Rome and his respect for Volumnia as the honour’d mould |
| David Benedict – determined | He has brutally defiant self determination |
| Wilders | Values consistency |
| Michael Billington – on Hiddleston’s interpretation | Hiddleston gives us a man ultimately destroyed by his own headlong nature |
| Tom Hiddleston – no human feelings | He has denied himself the most human feeling |
| O.J. Campbell – infantile to V | His attitude to her remains completely infantile and undignified … not that of the tragic hero |
| A.P. Rossiter – constant | He himself remains an absolute constant |
| Nazi Germany | Positive interpretation of Coriolanus – a true hero trying to head a misguided people |
| Britain 1935 | Negative interpretation of Coriolanus – a corrupt dictator |
Coriolanus – critics
July 13, 2019