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Title: Not for Kindle
Review: The commentary is modern and relevant, and the play itself is a masterwork: it challenges the audience directly with the character of Gaius Martius Coriolanus, who derives his being from war. It is a very great play, worthy of long and careful study. But the Kindle edition is essentially unreadable: it's impossible to tell the length of lines, since all is presented in scarcely differentiated blocks of text which, alarmingly, change sizes are you're reading. There are no notes to explain terms. The apparatus considered essential for modern readers is lost in the transition to Kindle format. (Try to find any act-scene-line combination: it's almost impossible). The Kindle is pretty slick, but the formatting of Shakespeare's play is beond this device. Buy the paperback; or let me know if you find a Kindle-compatible version that preserve stage direction, notes on the text, and the proper division of lines.
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