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• Plutarch, Lives: Caius Martius Coriolanus:Julius Caesar: Marcus Brutus: Marcus Antonius: Octavius Caesar Augustus: Theseus: Alcibiades

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0078

  Plutarch's Lives. Includes the lives of Caius Martius Coriolanus,Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, Marcus Antonius, Octavius Caesar Augustus, Theseus, Alcibiades. The edition is transcribed from the translation of Sir Thomas North, the version Shakespeare used. Available from thePerseus Projectat Tufts University:

  keywords: Cor, caesar, edition, julius, perseus, plutarch, coriolanus, brutus, antonius, augustus, theseus

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Roman plays

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The End of Absolutism

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm

  Cefalu, Paul. "'The End of Absolutism': Shakespeare'sCoriolanusand the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State."Renaissance Forum4.2 (2000). Cefalu argues against what he considers "transitionalist and capitalist misreadings ofCoriolanus." He attempts to reinterpret the play based on recent historical work on the nature of the Tudor-Stuart state:

  keywords: coriolanus, state, government, class, politics, capitalism, tudor, jacobean

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Coriolanus

  valid as of 2007-01-10