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Summary: Big-Don's Review of a Shakespeare Classic
Review: This story was, as the name suggests, a tragedy. This was one of Shakespeares' more weak works. I recommend this for only the real "die-hard" Shakespeare fan, but for the rest of you, I would pass.
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Summary: Can't rank it with his best, but still a worthy read.
Review: With its scenes of war and mobs, CORIOLANUS is a work best expirienced on the stage, of course, being one of his least popular plays, it doesn't get produced too often. The only killing Coriolanus does is on the battle field, but he still comes off as a much less likable character than the murdering Hamlet or Macbeth because Coriolanus spends much of the play berating the citizens of Rome. CORIOLANUS has often been called Shakespeare's manifesto against democracy because of this, but the play is much more complex than that. Yes, it's a play about the fickleness of the masses, but it's also about leaders who don't perform their responsibilities either. The play is much more political than emotional, and therefore not one I'll return to often, but its political statements are as timely today as they were 400 years ago, if not moreso.
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