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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 137: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

Contents

Scene I. Rome. A street

Scene II. Corioles. The Senate House

Scene III. Rome. An apartment in Martius’ house

Scene IV. Before Corioles

Scene V. Within Corioles. A street

Scene VI. Near the camp of Cominius

Scene VII. The gates of Corioles

Scene VIII. A field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps

Scene IX. The Roman camp

Scene X. The camp of the Volsces

Scene I. Rome. A public place

Scene II. Rome. The Capitol

Scene III. Rome. The Forum

Scene I. Rome. A street

Scene II. Rome. A room in Coriolanus’s house

Scene III. Rome. The Forum

Scene I. Rome. Before a gate of the city

Scene II. Rome. A street near the gate

Scene III. A highway between Rome and Antium

Scene IV. Antium. Before Aufidius’s house

Scene V. Antium. A hall in Aufidius’s house

Scene VI. Rome. A public place

Scene VII. A camp at a short distance from Rome

Scene I. Rome. A public place

Scene II. An Advanced post of the Volscian camp before Rome.

Scene III. The tent of Coriolanus

Scene IV. Rome. A public place

Scene V. Rome. A street near the gate

Scene VI. Antium. A public place

Dramatis Personæ

CAIUS MARTIUS CORIOLANUS, a noble Roman
VOLUMNIA, his mother
VIRGILIA, his wife
YOUNG MARTIUS, their son
VALERIA, friend to Volumnia and Virgilia
A GENTLEWOMAN, Volumnia’s attendant

MENENIUS AGRIPPA, Friend to Coriolanus
COMINIUS, General against the Volscians
TITUS LARTIUS, General against the Volscians
SICINIUS VELUTUS, Tribune of the People
JUNIUS BRUTUS, Tribune of the People
A ROMAN HERALD

TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians
LIEUTENANT, to Aufidius
Conspirators with Aufidius
A CITIZEN of Antium
TWO VOLSCIAN GUARDS

Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Aediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants

SCENE: Partly in Rome, and partly in the territories of the Volscians and Antiates.