“By Jupiter, forgot”: Volscians and Scots in Shakespeare and Arbella Stuart

This essay examines the representation of Volscians in two texts, Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and a letter Lady Arbella Stuart’s referring to Virgil’s Camilla. It argues that for both authors, it matters relationship between Romans could trope Scots English. In month which Queen Elizabeth died, Stuart reached Volscian as way connect herself Scotland; five years later, wake James’s failed attempt achieve political constitutional union England Scotland, uses question project.