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Jun 21, 2024 · 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.
Jun 25, 2024 · A play by Shakespeare first printed in the Folio of 1623. In order of composition, however, it was probably Shakespeare's last tragedy, written about 1608.
4 days ago · In 1807 Mary and Charles published Tales from Shakespear, a collection of prose adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays, intended for children. Mary wrote the preface and the 14 comedies and histories, and Charles contributed the 6 tragedies; only Charles’s name, however, appeared on the title page.
Jun 27, 2024 · Hazlitt believed that because tragedy engages our emotions most profoundly, it is the greatest kind of drama. Of the tragedies based on Greek and Roman history, he ranked Julius Caesar beneath the other Roman tragedies, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.
Jun 15, 2024 · This tragedy takes place in Rome, possibly between 500 and 493 B.C., during the time of the Roman republic and its political revolt of the plebeians against the patricians, the ruling aristocracy. The plot revolves around a military hero, Caius Marcus, best known as Coriolanus because of his heroic conquest of Corioles, and his ...
Jun 20, 2024 · A dramatization of William Shakespeare's tragedy about the soldier Coriolanus--aggressive, unreflective, tactless and anti-social, who was destroyed by his convictions. <<
Jun 27, 2024 · Inspired by the scholarly work of Paul Cantor and David Lowenthal, this paper argues that the 1981 war-comedy, Stripes, constitutes a democratic appropriation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.
