Reuben A. Brower

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1) Coriolanus

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

New Penguin Shakespeare volume NPS3
Argo Classics
New Folger Library Shakespeare
Pelican Shakespeare
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Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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"This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between James I and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh - and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's shaping of his primary source...

2) The tragedy of Coriolanus

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Folger Library general reader's Shakespeare volume W125
The Works of Shakespeare edited for the syndics of the Cambridge University Press
The New Shakespeare
Blaisdell book in the humanities

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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A proud Roman general conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city.

3) I.A. Richards: essays in his honor

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1973

Language

English

4) The Iliad

Author

Homer

Series

The world's great classics
Johns Hopkins new translations from antiquity
İlyada
Modern readers'
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Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway Audiobook, Spoken CD

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Sing of rage, Goddess, that bane of Akhilleus, Peleus' son, which caused untold pain for Akhaians, sent down throngs of powerful spirits to Aides, war-chiefs rendered the prize of dogs and every sort of bird. Edward McCrorie's new translation of Homer's classic epic of the "Trojan War" captures the falling rhythms of a doomed "Troy". McCrorie presents the sundry epithets and resonant symbols of Homer's verse style and remains as close to the Greek's...