The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Tragedy of Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare ()[]
The play is popularly referred to simply as Coriolanus.
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The original text
Believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608, the play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Tragedie van Coriolanus by Anna S. Pohl, the language edited by Cor Bekker. The text published by DALRO in 1970.
Performance history in South Africa
1991: Produced in the Wits Theatre by the School of Dramatic Art (SODA) at the University of the Witwatersrand, directed and designed by Sarah Roberts.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus.
Performance text of the Afrikaans version, DALRO 1970.
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