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Coriolanus ( / kɒriəˈleɪnəs / or /- ˈlɑː -/ [1]) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same years he wrote Antony and Cleopatra, making them his last two tragedies.
The five-act play, based on the life of Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, a legendary Roman hero of the late 6th and early 5th centuries bce, is essentially an expansion of the Plutarchan biography in Parallel Lives. Though it is Elizabethan in structure, it is markedly Classical in tone.
- David Bevington
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Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that was first performed around 1609. Like Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, it is a Roman play. But unlike those plays, it is not set in the Imperial Rome of the first century CE, but more than two centuries earlier, when Rome was just one Italian city among many, fighting for survival.
by. William Shakespeare. Coriolanus is a tragedy that tells the story of a Roman general named Caius Marcius Coriolanus, who is renowned for his military prowess and bravery. The play is set in ancient Rome during a time of political unrest and social upheaval. Coriolanus is a proud and arrogant man who despises the common people and believes ...
Jul 31, 2015 · Set in the earliest days of the Roman Republic, Coriolanus begins with the common people, or plebeians, in armed revolt against the patricians. The people win the right to be represented by tribunes. Meanwhile, there are foreign enemies near the gates…
Jan 19, 2023 · Coriolanus is so devoted to his family and to Rome that he finds the decision to grant the plebians representation intolerable. To him, it elevates plebeians to a status equal with his family and class, to Rome’s great disadvantage.
Coriolanus is set in the earliest days of the Roman Republic. When the play opens, Rome’s kings, the Tarquins, have only recently been expelled, and its citizens are negotiating, sometimes violently, about how Rome is to be ruled.
