Coriolanus and his mother

Abstract

At the core of each of Shakespeare’s plays is some fundamental human problem, a failed rite of passage such as the unwillingness of a father to give up his daughter’s love (King Lear) or the way jealousy turns into destructive rage (Othello, Winter’s Tale). Hamlet although 30 years old seems immature in his idealisation of his father and his emotional attachment to his mother.