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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical... Read Full Overview

This Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an... Read Full Overview

Set in the earliest days of the Roman Republic, Coriolanus begins with the common people, or plebeians, in armed revolt against the patricians. The people win the right to be represented by tribunes. Meanwhile, there are foreign enemies near the gates of Rome. The play explores... Read Full Overview

Set in the earliest days of the Roman Republic, Coriolanus begins with the common people, or plebeians, in armed revolt against the patricians. The people win the right to be represented by tribunes. Meanwhile, there are foreign enemies near the gates of Rome. The play explores... Read Full Overview

The Signet Classics edition of Shakespeare's powerful tragedy of divided politics. One of the Bard's final tragedies, this is the story of an Ancient Roman soldier whose political machinations and military might gain him heroic status, but ultimately lead to his assassination... Read Full Overview

Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first... Read Full Overview

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical... Read Full Overview

Vengeance and War--Rome is in turmoil there is rioting in the streets and open warfare between the varying ruling factions. Coriolanus would bring peace and order to Rome but will Rome let him?You common cry of curs whose breath I hateAs reek o' the rotten fens whose loves I... Read Full Overview

A highly political play, Coriolanus concerns a military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candidate for public office -- a disastrous move that leads to his collaborating with the enemy and heading an attack on Rome. Despite his... Read Full Overview

Complete Unabridged Beautiful Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is one of the finest tragedies ever published. Enjoy it again or for the very first time in this stylish new paperback edition.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical,... Read Full Overview

This edition of Coriolanus is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists... Read Full Overview

Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy - along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - An original Introduction to Coriolanus - Incisive scene-by-scene... Read Full Overview

The latest addition to our highly acclaimed Oxford School Shakespeare series, Coriolanus is probably the Bard's last tragedy, written about 1608. Set in ancient Rome, it follows the life of Roman general Coriolanus, who betrays his country and leads a barbarian army against his... Read Full Overview

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. The tragedy is numbered as one of the last two tragedies written by Shakespeare, along with... Read Full Overview

A powerfully topical new translation of Shakespeare's study of military power and political folly.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens' hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and... Read Full Overview

First performed in 1609, "Coriolanus" is one of the three Roman tragedies written by William Shakespeare. The play follows Roman hero Caius Marcius, later named Coriolanus for his victory against the neighboring Volscians. Being offered to sit in the senate as a consul in Rome... Read Full Overview

Enabling power: Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, s. 27 (1). Issued: 17.03.2005. Made: 01.03.2005. Laid: 02.03.2005. Coming into force: 23.03.2005. Effect: S.I. 1991/1297 revoked. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/NI. General. Revoked by SI 2013/2733 (ISBN 9780111105399)... Read Full Overview