Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Coriolanus has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge School Shakespeare .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Cambridge University Press .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.

This book has the following chapters: 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.