coriolanus

The Coriolanus is less of an artistic achievement, but they resolved the play's terrible pacing problems to make it a thrilling political action movie.

There was also a very good Coriolanus recently (another obscure play given a very modern and relevant performance).

From purely the language's perspectives, non-native speakers will struggle with Coriolanus much more due to outdated language.

The gods, says Coriolanus in Dionysius, have an influence in every affair; but above all, in war; where the event is so uncertain.

Also Polansku's Macbeth, Coriolanus with Anthony Hopkins, and King Lear.

I'll make the bold claim that Second Law of Thermodynamics would be recalled by far more scientists than the plot of Coriolanus would be by MFAs.

I was quoting Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

It is a little as if the only surviving works of a man named William Shakespeare were Coriolanus and A Winter’s Tale, but we had heard that he had written certain other plays, unknown to us but apparently prized in his time – works entitled Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.

If you enjoy history and literature, maybe Plutarch's parallel lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus; or Christopher Lasch's "Culture of Narcissism" could provide some perspective.

If he'd asked "how many of you have heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics", or if he'd asked "how many of you can describe the plot of Coriolanus" the questions would be closer to equivalent.

And also from Plutarch, women are the ones who stop Rome from being destroyed w/ Coriolanus.

Flesch-Kincaid score does nothing for the majority of readers if it doesn't distinguish between Night and Day (Woolf) and Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida contain an undisguised bitterness which is largely absent in the earlier tragedies (although you can glimpse a hint of it in Anthony and Cleopatra).