A relationship exists between James I & Coriolanus in regards to absolutism. Coriolanus acts as the pharmakos and his story happens much earlier than that of Julius Caesar. 509BC is when Truscans were in charge of Rome and it was being led by a tyrant. One of the Truscans, Tarquin, planned to rape Lucrece because she was the most beautiful woman in Rome. After Lucrece is raped, she calls men to her bedside and tells them she has been raped by Tarquin and that she plans to kill herself to prove she never wanted to be raped. They then proceed to take her body out to the public plaza to show everyone she has been raped. The rape of Lucrece is the root of the founding of the Roman Republic. Coriolanus is part of this story in that he was one of the heroes in the overthrow of the tyrant. The other reason this is brought up is because Shakespeare will continuously go back to this story. We also see this story in Julius Caesar in which all of this iconography haunts the play.
Cecilia Luppi
Waldo Section 1D
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