Spirit, Soul, and City: Shakespeare's Coriolanus

By Jan H. Blits

Book Overview

Spirit, Soul, and City offers a new reading of Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying the founding of the Roman republic and the life and soul of its legendary warrior, Coriolanus, the play brings to light not only the hidden working of Rome's mixed regime but the inherent tragic tensions in the soul's spirited tendency to strive to go beyond itself in order to be true to itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739115421
• ISBN13: 9780739115428
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"