It’s a bit of a risk to put a lesser-known Shakespeare play with a vaguely comical name in the National Theatre’s massive Olivier space. But you wouldn’t know it from the monumental confidence of ...

Taking a Shakespeare play out of its original period and context is dangerous business. Get it right — figure out what’s modern and fresh about the centuries-old text — and you wind up with something ...

A feared and revered military commander courts tragedy when he enters the political arena in CORIOLANUS, a driving action/drama that marks the directorial debut of the film’s star, two-time Academy ...

The title character in “Coriolanus” is one of those Shakespearean heroes you love to hate — or maybe you’re just hating yourself for having warm feelings toward this rather unheroic hero. For one ...

Bare-Knuckle Politics: The battle-hardened Roman general Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes) runs for office at the urging of his mother (Vanessa Redgrave) — but it turns out he's no booster of majority rule.

It’s not surprising that Shakespeare remains the most filmed author of all time. (Yes, children, that even includes Stephen King.) In fact, in any given year there are more adaptations of Shakespeare ...

Shakespeare’s unloved tragedy about populism and hubris in Ancient Rome is often regarded as a poor cousin to Julius Caesar. Its plot is less dynamic, its unyielding protagonist, who is forced ...

Though not the most lovable, Ralph Fiennes is certainly a great actor, with a seemingly impassive lizardlike gaze and the suggestion of some inner cruelty. These stern qualities are offset by ...

Having doubts about William Shakespeare’s relevance to present-day politics? “Coriolanus” will quickly dispatch those. Returned home from victory in battle, Roman general Caius Martius is persuaded to ...

One of the pleasures and marvels of reading Shakespeare now, 401 years after his death, comes from encountering a passage or even a line that resonates as if written today, as though to demonstrate ...