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“Aufidius feels more passion for [Coriolanus] than he did for his bride on their wedding night. Once more, this is rhetoric, not sexual invitation. Yet the line between them is a thin one, as Aufidius’s servants note, perceiving the way their master flirts with his guest at the dinner table: “our general himself makes a mistress of him, … and turns up the white o'th’ eye to his discourse” (4.5.193-195). The deepest passions of generals are for their colleagues, and perhaps even for their enemies. To see this performed and articulated in Coriolanus is to have further light shed on the complex erotics of Othello.”
- Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All (via atreides)
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“Aufidius feels more passion for [Coriolanus] than he did for his bride on their wedding night. Once more, this is rhetoric, not sexual invitation. Yet the line between them is a thin one, as Aufidius’s servants note, perceiving the way their master flirts with his guest at the dinner table: “our general himself makes a mistress of him, … and turns up the white o'th’ eye to his discourse” (4.5.193-195). The deepest passions of generals are for their colleagues, and perhaps even for their enemies. To see this performed and articulated in Coriolanus is to have further light shed on the complex erotics of Othello.”
- Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All (via atreides)
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