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.
| ISBN: | 9780521728744 |
| Publication date: | 21st January 2010 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss, Bridget Escolme |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | The New Cambridge Shakespeare |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: general Literary studies: plays and playwrights |