Author(s): William Shakespeare

Plays, Theatre & Dance

Description: This edition presents a new look at Coriolanus in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theatre and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way.

Contents: List of characters; Before the play begins; Coriolanus; What is Coriolanus about?; Characters; The language of Coriolanus; Rome: patricians and plebians; The sources for the story; Critics' forum; Staging Coriolanus; William Shakespeare.