In his later life Shakespeare, who never ducked ways to define a hero, offered the public a challenge: Coriolanus is a professional warrior, deaf to reason, patrician hater of people power. To beat all, this man's man's a mother's boy. In a world trying to be newborn in democracy and a big society, Coriolanus sticks out like a sore thumb.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00PM on December 18, 2013