Word: volumnia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child to save her fatherland...
...procession of graphic scenes. Its greatest weaknesses stem from miscasting. As Coriolanus, Hollywood's Robert Ryan is never large-statured or deep-fissured enough; he suggests prep school and Wall Street rather than gens and war. And though a good actress, Mildred Natwick is not a right Volumnia. Yet the play still registers...