Hello Rosyposy49,
It was George Bernard Shaw who described the play Coriolanus as
Shakespeare's greatest comedy.
Source of information:
Man and Superman. 1903.
Author: Bernard Shaw (1856?1950)
Epistle Dedicatory TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
Excerpt:
? ...Faulconbridge, Coriolanus, Leontes are admirable descriptions of
instinctive temperaments: indeed the play of Coriolanus is the
greatest of Shakespear?s comedies; but description is not philosophy;
and comedy neither compromises the author nor reveals him.?
Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/157/100.html
Contents
http://www.bartleby.com/157/index.html
Bibliographic Record
http://www.bartleby.com/br/157.html
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From the Curtain Up Review of Coriolanus:
?Tina Packer begins her director's notes for Shakespeare & Company's
Coriolanus by pointing out that George Bernard Shaw called it
Shakespeare's greatest comedy while it was T. S. Eliot's favorite
tragedy.?
Curtain Up
http://www.curtainup.com/coriolanusberk.html
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From The Nation
Volume: 201 ? Issue #: 0003 ? Date: August 02, 1965
Theatre by Novick, Julius
?...In Volumnia's scenes, as Miss MaoMahon plays them, we 'see a
little of why Shaw called Coriolanus Shakespeare's greatest comedy...?
http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v201i0003_11.htm
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