Sign-In
Cart
Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Rome, War, Pride, and Political Power
Hardcover
Literary CriticismGeneral DramaShakespeare
ISBN13: 9781515425151
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a severe and powerful tragedy of war, pride, political manipulation, and a great soldier's inability to live within the society he has defended.
Caius Martius is Rome's fiercest warrior, a man of extraordinary courage and brutal honesty whose victories earn him the name Coriolanus. But battlefield greatness does not make him fit for civic life. Pressed toward political office, he cannot flatter the common people, cannot disguise his contempt, and cannot bend his nature to the machinery of public power. His enemies understand the crowd better than he does, and his pride turns military glory into political ruin.
Written late in Shakespeare's career, Coriolanus is one of his most searching political plays. It examines class conflict, republican government, popular resentment, military honour, maternal influence, exile, betrayal, and the dangerous distance between personal virtue and public usefulness. The play offers no easy hero and no simple villain: Coriolanus is courageous, arrogant, principled, cruel, magnificent, and catastrophically unsuited to compromise.
This Wilder Publications edition is suited to readers of Shakespeare, classic drama, political tragedy, Roman plays, Renaissance literature, and works concerned with power, citizenship, honour, and the unstable bond between leaders and the people they claim to serve.
4 different editions
Also available
Coriolanus: (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford)
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Also in
Shakespeare
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Much ADO about Nothing: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
As You Like It: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Julius Caesar: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
A Midsummer Night's Dream: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
Macbeth: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
A Midsummer Night's Dream: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Connor, Francis X.
Shakespeare, William
August, Hannah
Paperback
Julius Caesar: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Merchant of Venice: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
The Merchant of Venice: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Shakespeare, William
Sparknotes
Paperback
Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
McCarthy, Harry R.
Taylor, Gary
Paperback
Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright
Quealy, Gerit
Collins, Sumie Hasegawa
Hardcover
Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Bourus, Terri
Shakespeare, William
Whipday, Emma
Paperback
The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespearethe History of King Lear
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Othello: The Moor of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeareothello: The Moor of Venice
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
King Lear: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
The Tempest: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English
Sparknotes
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
Neville, Sarah
Adams, Brandi K.
Paperback
Arden of Faversham: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Bourus, Terri
Shakespeare, William
Sheeha, Iman
Paperback
The School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Molière: Two Comedies in an Acclaimed Translation.
Wilbur, Richard
Paperback
As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
Borlik, Todd
Connor, Francis X.
Paperback
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Abridged for Schools and Performance
Shakespeare, William
O'Hara, Kj
Paperback
The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare
Neville, Sarah
Shakespeare, William
Davies, Callan
Paperback