Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 15 T2 - International Journal of Jungian Studies SP - 136-56 ID - bbbo767 T1 - "Slaying the Dragon in Shakespeare's Coriolanus: A Jungian, Archetypal Analysis" AU - Russell, Jesse PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Building on Coriolanus's self-description as a "lonely dragon," presents Coriolanus as an archetypal dragon: predatory, greedy, and "think[ing] of himself as being superior to the human condition." Positions Aufidius as archetypal dragon slayer. Suggests that Shakespeare's dragon imagery draws on Scandinavian literature and Nordic myth.  English summary, 136. ER -