A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
FAIN: FT-55012-07
David Frederick George
Urbana University (Urbana, OH 43078-2091)
The New Variorum edition of "Coriolanus" will be a CD-ROM and a book of some 900 pages, of which about 550 are the text of the play in its original 1623 spelling with textual variants just below and explanatory notes on the same and following page. Appendices cover the transmission of the text, date of composition, sources, criticism, stage history, and sound effects. A sixty-page bibliography follows. Two tasks need to be done in summer 2007: collation of MS. emendations in 18th c. editions and an essay on the Folio text and its later transmission. Also, the History of Criticism and the Bibliography require to be worked on as time permits. The aim is to have all sections of the NV in the hands of the general editors by December 31, 2007.
Media Coverage
"Appropriated Shakespeare: Sensation, Politicization, and De(con)struction." (Review)
Author(s): Edmund Taft, editor
Publication: Selected papers of Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
Date: 3/30/2007
Abstract: Short version of book, with emphasis on post-Brecht adaptations, and remarks on and reasons for the failure of all but Brecht's adaptation of Coriolanus. Newspaper reviews of Robert Lepage's French version are quoted in detail. Deviations from and cuts of Shakespeare's text are summarized.
URL: http://blogs/uakron.edu.ovsc
"Appropriated Shakespeare: Sensation, Politicization, and De(con)struction" (Media Coverage)
Author(s): David George
Publication: Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
Date: 3/30/2009
Abstract: A condensed version of A Comparison of Sic Adaptations, from Tate to Robert Lepage. Emphasis is on post-1950s adaptations, their cuts and manipulations, and their success or lack of it. Particular attention is paid to political slanting, with a conclusion that all of them were ephemeral except Brecht's. The essay was re-published by Thomson/Gale, Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 95 (2011).
URL: http://blogs.uakron.edu/OVSC
"Coriolanus and the Late Romances" (Media Coverage)
Author(s): David George
Publication: Late Shakespeare, 1608-1616, ed. Power and Loughnane
Date: 7/31/2013
Abstract: Linking of Coriolanus (1608) with the four romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale, The Tempest) that follow it, with emphasis on repeated themes of revenge and reconciliation, similar plot details, and parallel characters.
URL: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9931659