The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare
$34.07
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2008
Summary
Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics.
The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare’s adaptation of his historical material (Plutarch’s Lives) in relation to the social and political conditions in London and Stratford at the time of the play’s composition, also offering new evidence that it was written in 1608. Professor Park…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199535804 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199535809 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, R.B. Parker |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 129mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Audience Age: | 15-18 |
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Critics Review
`‘Stanley Wells’ OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World’s Classics.‘The Oxford Times’English Studies Offprint from vol.77 Number 1, January 1996
William Shakespeare
Brian Parker is Professor of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto.
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