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Coriolanus

Hardback

Main Details

Title Coriolanus
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Lee Bliss
Contributions by Bridget Escolme
SeriesThe New Cambridge Shakespeare
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:330
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreShakespeare plays
ISBN/Barcode 9780521429603
ClassificationsDewey:822.33
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Edition 2nd Revised edition
Illustrations 14 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 21 January 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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