Objectives of the Study

English society and the world; even those were parallelized with Holy Bible. This indicates that besides Holy Bible, a work of literature especially Shakespeare’s works can be used to gain messages or values which important and useful for life. People judge that Shakespeare’s works contain messages and values which can be learned. Having recognized who William Shakespeare is, there is a work of literature, notably a play which reveals his brilliant ideas. William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is a play that told about politics in relevance with the history of English politics to early modern. Politics becomes important subject during sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. This description can be seen in The End of Absolutism: Shakespeares Coriolanus and the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State by Cefalu 2000 such follows. I have argued that the point of departure for an analysis of the historical relevance of Coriolanus to early modern English politics is an understanding of the non-absolutist, consensual nature of early modern statehood, particularly the integration within the state platform of both negative libertarianism and paternalist centralization. Rather than interpret the play as an allegorical enactment of historically established party and class antagonisms, which did not in fact exist during the early seventeenth century, the class positions in the play should be seen as two unreified manifestations of the duality of the early modern state. Coriolanus is a thoroughly Jacobean play that reflects consensual politics rather than embattled, transitional ideologies http:www.hull.ac.ukrenforumv4no2cefalu.htm. The quotation above shows that the play, Coriolanus , is a portrait of English politics when English entered the early modern. Through his play, Shakespeare implies a criticism about government and politics in the era of King James. Libertarianism, absolutism of power, and democracy are the subjects implied in the play. Thus, the criticism above tries to reveal the matters. The concept of historical-political scope is emphasized. Other critic also comments, still, about the historical-political concept in Coriolanus . In his review, The Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and Metaphorical Government in Coriolanus, Eastman 2007 states that the play, Coriolanus is a work of William Shakespeare which is inspired by a real event in London. The event is signed by a rebellion from people. The event that is called ‘the Midlands rebels’ is protest to the landowners’ policy of transforming traditionally public, open fields into centralized, fenced-in, private property. The critical orthodoxy that ties Coriolanus to the Midlands Insurrection has affected the building of strained connections between the play’s social concerns and those of the Midlands rebels, enclosure chief among them; this has in turn left many promising readings of the play unduly concerned with somehow detecting phanto m commons in Shakespeare’s Rome http:extra.shu.ac.ukemls13-1eastcori.htm. Eastman implies the criticism of the practice of feudalism which is inspired Shakespeare’s work. From Cefalu’s and Eastman’s criticisms which hold the discussion of historical-political scope, the discussion indirectly aims at the important aspect in history and politics affair. History records both Rome and England passed through some periods of power, war, glory, and destruction. Those, of course, refer to the role of leaders of each period. Those are also how leaders of each period determine the way of power, war, glory and destruction. It is important to argue that politics and leadership generally support each other. Then if the characteristics of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, the main character, is viewed deeply it can be noticed that he tends to be a political leader.