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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 ...

Telute 22.12.2003 · Read full review
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Coriolanus

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 ...

snowbird123 15.09.2008 · Read full review
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