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Scene X. Verity (Student's Sh.): The dominant idea of the scene is ‘dramatic irony.’ And there is, I think, a peculiar verbal deliberateness in the ‘irony.’ What Aufidius says in ll. 27-30 is the precise antithesis of what he afterwards does (IV, v.), though in the end (V, vi.) he swings back to his first purpose. We have seen (I, iv, 57, I, vi, 89) the ‘ironical’ method applied similarly to Aufidius's great rival, hence a parallelism of design and development in the story.
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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