A conflict of power, privilege, and pride, Coriolanus resonates more readily today, perhaps, than others of the tragedies. At first glance a scathing indictment of mobocracy, it is that, but it becomes an examination of family dynamics and the costs of arrogance. In the end, Coriolanus is too extraordinary, in ways good and bad, to be allowed to exist in the world.
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