Provides the text of the play from different sources to show the variations between earlier versions, with footnotes, a genealogical table, and notes on how the work can be performed with fewer actors.

"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...

Contains the text of the play, information about Shakespeare and his theatre, bibliography, key to famous lines, and explanatory notes.