Coriolanus (Writers & Their Work)

by Anita Pacheco

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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 aristocratic honour. The book also provides a re-valuation of Volumnia's role in the play, arguing that she is depicted neither as a bad mother...Read more
  • ISBN10 074631146X
  • ISBN13 9780746311462
  • Publish Date 1 December 2010 (first published 1 December 2007)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 30 May 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Liverpool University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English
9780746311479
9780746311479
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