Excerpt from Be Sorosis March, 1910 In Coriolanus the theme becomes even more prominent. It is no longer packed into the turning point of the plot; it is expanded until it becomes the whole plot. The mob is the plot, the main theme, the phil osophy, the atmosphere, the complete play. Just when Shakespeare's treat ment of madness, of fate's undis criminating injustice, of man's bru tality, of woman's baseness, of evil's dominance in the affairs of men, is softening, is sinking, is preparing to yield to the idyllic beauty and peace of the Winter's Tale and the Temp est, he recovers his bitter irony long enough to give this fiercest of all his judgments of the beastly common ers, of the mutable and rank scented many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.