De Roma para o mundo: a recepção crítica dos reviews nas versões fílmicas de 'Coriolano', de William Shakespeare

Abstract

This article has the aim of analyzing two movie adaptations of the play Coriolanus (1607-08) by William Shakespeare from public reception. So, we will use available reviews of these movies on the internet. The Tragedy of Coriolanus of 1984 directed by Elijah Moshinsky belonged to an ambitious project of the British network BBC, that brought to the television all the plays written by the English playwriter, excepting the written in partnership, since Moshinsky’s version is considered one of the most successful of this project. On the other hand Coriolanus (2011), which was directed by Ralph Fiennes, is the only version made directly for the cinema, whose priority was the action and the insertion of popular characters. It is important to underline that although they are movie adaptations based on a play of the best playwright of all time, they are little known in Brazil, what corroborates a more detailed analysis of both.