Příspěvek na konferenci v Opavě: SILSE 2018 5th International Conference of English and American Studies
Abstract
Title of the paper: Political Strategies in Shakespeare's Coriolanus Taking place during continual Roman-Volscian wars, Martius' sudden bid for political power ultimately fails bringing Rome almost on the brink of destruction. Despised, though admired for his fighting skills and eventually banished from the city, Martius challenges the themes of liberty and republicanism.
His refusal to conform to a political custom and embrace play-acting as a means of approaching his voters thwarts his political success as well as it reveals political strategies employed by each party involved in the election and intense political struggle that divides society even further. This paper explored the intense political friction and the way it mirrored political climate and ideas during the reign of James I, the monarch whose taste for absolutism were quite close to that of Martius.
Concentrating on necessity of selling oneself on a political market it analyzed both rhetorical strategies and their lack of them, connection between language, thinking and action and the impact it has on political situation in the play.