William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary of The Tragedie of Coriolanus
Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D., Ed.

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You haue put me . . . toth' Life E. K. Chambers (Warwick Sh.): As Coriolanus's fate becomes too much for him, our sympathies swing to his side, and his position, at least when he is not angry, becomes charged with pathos.— MacCallum (p. 603): He was justified in objecting to methods of dissimulation and flattery, but, if only he had been reasonable, a middle would not have been hard to find which should safeguard his self-respect while pacifying the populace. It is because his self-respect is of passion, not of reason, that he is so unconciliatory, and therefore almost as culpable as if he were guilty of the opposite fault. Plutarch, indeed, thinks he is more so. In his comparison between him and Alcibiades he is in this matter more lenient to the latter. [See note by MacCallum, II, ii, 22-24, where the passage from the comparison is given.—Ed.]

such a part, which neuer Malone: So in 3 Henry VI: II, vi, 66, ‘—he would avoid such bitter taunts Which in the time of death he gave our father.’ Again, above, ll. 71, 72; also V, iii, 8; also, V, iii, 155. This phraseology was introduced by Shakespeare in the first of these passages, for the old play on which 3 Henry VI. was founded reads, ‘As in the time of death,’ &c. The word as has been substituted for ‘which’ by the modern editors in the passage before us.— [The words, ‘the passage before us,’ seem to refer to this passage in Coriolanus, but Malone means that from 3 Henry VI, where, as a matter of fact, the Folio reads, ‘Which,’ and Pope, following the older play, reads As, thus also the editors down to Malone, who restores the Folio reading. This ambiguous wording misled the meticulous Cambridge Edd., who, in their Note VIII, give this last sentence of Malone's note alone, adding: ‘We have been unable to find it [the reading as for which in this line in Coriolanus] in Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson, Capell, or Steevens. It is probably a printer's emendation in some of the numerous reprints of the play.’ Their own Text. Notes on the passage in 3 Henry VI. would have settled the point in question.—Ed.]