SOURCE: Carducci, Jane. “Shakespeare's Coriolanus: ‘Could I Find Out / The Woman's Part in Me.’” Literature and Psychology 33, no. 2 (1987): 11-20.
In the following essay, Carducci asserts that Coriolanus is a psychologically unbalanced character, and that Shakespeare used various conventions, rhetoric, and staging devices to underscore Coriolanus's isolation from society.
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