The 10 best plays about politics
As Hansard opens at the National Theatre and drama heats up in Westminster, our critic picks his favourite political theatre Whose side is Shakespeare on? As always, it is difficult to tell. Coriolanus is an arrogant military patrician who proves indispensable to the state. The people's tribunes have a legitimate grievance against a hero who has sanctioned civic starvation, while themselves being devious manipulators…