Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is a tragedy that follows the Roman general Caius Martius and his journey through the politics of Rome. His success on the battlefield yields him a place in the Roman Senate, but he is quickly ousted and banished from Rome by conspirators. He joins forces with his arch enemy Aufidius, leader of the Volscian army, and they launch an attack on Rome. Finally convinced by his mother and wife not to destroy the city; Caius is murdered by Aufidius for his betrayal.
The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.The ...
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Considered by critics, scholars, and the theater-going public the most important dramatist in the history of English literature, William Shakespeare occupies a unique position in the pantheon of great...
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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or ...
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William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly ...
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Biography Essay"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer,...
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Because Coriolanus is largely a stage of competing self-interests, it seems wholly unnecessary to acknowledge their centrality in the play. Most of these interests are ephemeral or situational, and ar...
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"O, he is wounded; I thank the Gods for't!"
I had a boss who once told me that America started "going down the crapper" when women got the vote. He said politics should be about money and war, and t...
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
