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- Coriolanus, though, cannot properly enter the political sphere. He cannot act like a politician—he considers this to be theatrical and dishonest—and therefore he cannot win votes.
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Jan 20, 2012 · Coriolanus seems like a fantasy modern politician. But the true moral of this political fable, newly adapted by Ralph Fiennes, isn’t one we’re eager to embrace.
- Ruth Franklin
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Coriolanus has the distinction of being among the few Shakespeare plays banned in a democracy in modern times. It was briefly suppressed in France in the late 1930s because of its use by the fascist element, and Slavoj Žižek noted its prohibition in Post-War Germany due to its intense militarism.
Jan 19, 2023 · He risks his political career to have the tribunate abolished—and is banished from Rome. Coriolanus then displays an apparently insatiable vengefulness against the state he idolized, opening a tragic divide within himself, pitting him against his mother and family, and threatening Rome’s very existence.
David Bevington. Coriolanus, the last of the so-called political tragedies by William Shakespeare, written about 1608 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from the playbook, which had preserved some features of the authorial manuscript. The five-act play, based on the life of Gnaeus Marcius.
- David Bevington
Perhaps Shakespeare's most overtly political play, more so even than the histories, Coriolanus takes as its hero a man completely lacking in political gifts--a stubborn soldier, brought down by an overweening pride and an inability to compromise with the forces that seek his downfall.
Coriolanus is also an unusually political play. It portrays a patrician-plebeian conflict that in some ways echoed the ongoing political struggle between King James and the English Parliament when the play was written. Read the full play summary, the full play analysis, or a complete character list from Coriolanus.
