Coriolanus (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521728746 ISBN 13: 9780521728744

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss, provides a thorough reconsideration of what was probably Shakespeare's last tragedy. In the introduction, Bliss situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's manipulation of his primary source in Plutarch's Lives. The edition is alert to the play's theatrical potential, while the stage history also attends to the politics of performance from the 1680s onwards, including European productions following the Second World War. A new introductory section by Bridget Escolme accounts for recent theatrical productions as well as scholarly criticism of the last decade, with particular emphasis on gender and politics.

About this title

Book Description:

Shakespeare's Roman play Coriolanus was probably his last tragedy, and represents the playwright's most searching exploration of the political life of a community. This annotated second edition provides full explanatory notes, and a substantial introduction which has been updated by Bridget Escolme to include the most recent criticism and productions of the play.

About the Author:

Bridget Escolme is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521728746
• ISBN 13: 9780521728744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Bliss Lee