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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.
A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Coriolanus. Find out more about the Roman general and his devotion to his mother that results in a tragedy.
Mar 19, 2024 · 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.
Aufidius, feeling slighted, declares that Coriolanus's failure to take Rome amounts to treachery; in the ensuing argument, some of Aufidius' men assassinate Coriolanus. A short summary of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Coriolanus.
CORIOLANUS. I dare be sworn you were: And, sir, it is no little thing to make Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir, What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part, I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you; and pray you, Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!
About Shakespeare's Coriolanus. By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. 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.
One of Shakespeare's final tragedies, Coriolanus cannot be considered one of his greatest plays, and it has never been one of his more popular. It lacks depth, both metaphysical and psychological; though structurally sound, its characters are not multi-dimensional, and it lacks both the great poetic strength and the capacity to surprise that ...
