Advantages: Clever study of political intrigue, an eternal theme Disadvantages: Hero is difficult to identify with and understand
Gripping tragedy on the grand scale set in ancient Rome. Coriolanus, the hero of the title, is a succesful general who seeks political power in the wake of the departure of the Tarquin kings. Shakespeare largely based his tale on the writings of Pluta ...
This is a later and more highly stylised theatrical product by Corneille. There are two sets of brothers and sister on opposing sides of a battle and each is in love with a member from the opposite side. Thus the usual Corneillian set up of duty versus pa ...
Advantages: It's pretty... Disadvantages: ... but something of a hotch-potch
I don't think Cymbeline is a famous play, at least not in the terms of Hamlet or MacBeth. I didn't read it until uni, and for most people being forced to read late Shakespeare by a slightly over-enthusiastic supervisor isn't going to be a problem. Cymbe ...
