Coriolanus, the last of the so-called political tragedies by William Shakespeare, written about 1608 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from the playbook, which had preserved some features of the authorial manuscript.
- The five-act play, based on the life of Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, a legendary Roman hero of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE, is essentially an expansion of the Plutarchan biography in Parallel Lives.
- Though it is Elizabethan in structure, it is markedly Classical in tone.

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