Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant play ever written. The Introduction to this new edition illuminates its relevance to Shakespeare's own time and to later ages while also emphasizing the wide range of interpretations that are possible in performance.
Shakespeare's Coriolanus is one of the most brilliant political plays ever written. Despite its ancient Roman setting, it remains a perennially relevant study of the relationship between personality and politics. The Introduction to this new edition illuminates its relevance to Shakespeare's own time and to later ages while also emphasizing the wide range of interpretations that are possible in performance.
it is odd that recent upmarket, single-play editions have been so rare ... The Oxford Shakespeare text edited by Brian Parker thus comes not a minute too soon. In addition to the best in contemporary editorial practice and contemporary scholarship, it offers as stage-sensitive an approach to a Shakespeare play as any edition to date. This edition, scholarly without being pedantic, timely rather than trendy, and as frankly theatrical as it is literary, will be consulted with pleasure and profit by university students, specialists in the early modern period, theater artists, and the general reader.
