Synopsis
The Tragedy of Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader. Most scholars believe the play is one of Shakespeare's later works, appearing circa 1607[citation needed], during the period which also featured the landmark tragedies King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra [see: Chronology of Shakespeare plays]. However, like many of Shakespeare's "later plays", its date of composition is under debate (see Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays - Oxfordian). The play was largely based on the Life of Coriolanus as it was described in Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans and Livy's Ab Urbe condita. The tragic hero is Caius Martius Coriolanus, a Roman soldier.


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