1. I, i, 15–23. WJ Craig (ed),Shakespeare: Complete Works(Oxford University Press, 1905) 701.
2. I, i, 231–2. Ibid, 703.
3. See further Peter Holland, ‘“Musty Superfluity”:Coriolanusand the Remains of Excess' in Pierre Kapitaniak and Jean-Michel Déprats (eds),Shakespeare et l'excès(Société Française Shakespeare, 2007) 89–101.
4. Such a society apparently does, or did once, exist. See www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2603640168.
5. Ivan Turgenev,Diary of a Superfluous Man(Faber & Faber, 2008) 97.