Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. This Critical Reader opens up the extraordinary range of interpretation the play has elicited over the centuries and offers exciting new directions for scholarship. With a timeline of key events relating to the play, substantial chapters survey the scholarly reaction to the play over four centuries, the history of Coriolanus on stage and the current research and thinking about the play. The second half of the volume comprises four ?New Directions' chapters addressing: philosophy; gender, affect and rhetoric; computational analysis and presentism.