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Vnshoot . . . Repeale him MacCallum (p. 515): In Shakespeare's account the action of Rome becomes much more dignified [than in Plutarch]. In none of the negotiations, in no chance word of citizen, tribune, or senator is there any hint of the sentence on Coriolanus being revoked. Only when peace is concluded does his recall follow quite naturally, as an act of gratitude, in the burst of jubilant relief. This, too, is one of the indications of Shakespeare's feeling for Roman greatness that we should bear in mind when elsewhere he seems to show less sense even than Plutarch of her civic virtue.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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