Coriolanus

This Roman tragedy, written in the early seventeenth century, follows Caius Martius, a patrician soldier who takes the name Coriolanus after capturing the Volscian town of Corioli. In Rome the tribunes Sicinius and Brutus turn the hungry plebeians against him when he stands for consul and cannot hide his contempt for the crowd. Banished, he joins his enemy Aufidius and leads a Volscian army to the gates of Rome. His mother Volumnia comes out to plead. The play is a study of pride, famine politics, and a warrior who can win a city and not inhabit it.

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