∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵
THE TRAGEDY OF
CORIOLANUS
EDITED BY
TUCKER BROOKE
NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXIV
Copyright, 1924
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| PAGE | |
| The Text | 1 |
| Act I | 1 |
| Act II | 34 |
| Act III | 62 |
| Act IV | 89 |
| Act V | 117 |
| Notes | 143 |
| Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 158 |
| Appendix B. The History of the Play | 163 |
| Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition | 169 |
| Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 172 |
| Index of Words Glossed | 173 |
The facsimile opposite reproduces from a copy in the Yale University Library the title-page of Nahum Tate's version of 'Coriolanus,' the earliest separate edition of the play in any form. (See p. 164.)
THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
Published under the Direction
of the
Department of English, Yale University,
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
(Scroll and Key Society of Yale College)
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1946, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.