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Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Paperback

Series: Writers and Their Work

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0746311478
ISBN13: 9780746311479
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book offers a stimulating new reading of Shakespeare's last tragedy. It situates the play within its own historical period and presents a lucid reappraisal of its representation of class conflict. One of the book's central arguments is that in adapting Plutarch's 'Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus' for the stage, Shakespeare smoothed out the radical political edges of his source, transforming its history of ruling-class oppression into a tragedy focused on the internal contradictions of

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