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A Guide to Coriolanus
The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world’s most celebrated dramatist.
Along with a clear, easy-to-follow description of the plot, each book contains plenty of quotations from the text – with simple explanations of any unfamiliar words and phrases – and some thought-provoking comments from critics, past and present.
The Shakespeare Handbooks include a few intriguing Shakespearean facts and figures, too. How old was Shakespeare when he wrote Coriolanus? How was he influenced by current events when he wrote the play? In which production were two characters ‘most realistically strangled and battered to death’ by a mob? What was spectacular about the 1959 production in which Laurence Olivier played Coriolanus? How was the play viewed in Stalin’s Russia – and Hitler’s Germany? What is a ‘doit’? A ‘fane’? Where is the ‘rock Tarpeian’? And who were the ‘Diggers of Warwickshire’?
If you’re apprehensive about approaching a Shakespeare play, the Shakespeare Handbooks provide the perfect introduction. They’re ideal for students, theatregoers – in fact, anyone curious to know more about the greatest plays in the English language.
These are a few of the appreciative comments we’ve received about the Shakespeare Handbooks:
“Tremendously useful in helping to understand Shakespeare’s works” – Dame Judi Dench.
“Very readable, very helpful” – Sir Kenneth Branagh.
“The Shakespeare Handbooks open the plays up admirably. Excellent for all levels of reader – everybody will get something from them.” – Simon Callow CBE.
Along with a clear, easy-to-follow description of the plot, each book contains plenty of quotations from the text – with simple explanations of any unfamiliar words and phrases – and some thought-provoking comments from critics, past and present.
The Shakespeare Handbooks include a few intriguing Shakespearean facts and figures, too. How old was Shakespeare when he wrote Coriolanus? How was he influenced by current events when he wrote the play? In which production were two characters ‘most realistically strangled and battered to death’ by a mob? What was spectacular about the 1959 production in which Laurence Olivier played Coriolanus? How was the play viewed in Stalin’s Russia – and Hitler’s Germany? What is a ‘doit’? A ‘fane’? Where is the ‘rock Tarpeian’? And who were the ‘Diggers of Warwickshire’?
If you’re apprehensive about approaching a Shakespeare play, the Shakespeare Handbooks provide the perfect introduction. They’re ideal for students, theatregoers – in fact, anyone curious to know more about the greatest plays in the English language.
These are a few of the appreciative comments we’ve received about the Shakespeare Handbooks:
“Tremendously useful in helping to understand Shakespeare’s works” – Dame Judi Dench.
“Very readable, very helpful” – Sir Kenneth Branagh.
“The Shakespeare Handbooks open the plays up admirably. Excellent for all levels of reader – everybody will get something from them.” – Simon Callow CBE.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2022
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