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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

Chapter 109: CORIOLANUS.
By William Shakespeare
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The volume collects four dramatic works that range from a historical drama focused on court politics and questions of succession to a skeptical treatment of love and honor amid a prolonged war. Another play examines pride, civic unrest, and the fraught relationship between a celebrated public figure and the populace, ending in alienation and political catastrophe. A final piece delivers a brutal revenge tragedy where cycles of atrocity and retaliation escalate into extreme violence. The edition pairs the plays with scholarly notes and textual commentary that document variant readings and editorial decisions.

CORIOLANUS.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[F].

Caius Marcius, afterwards Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Titus Lartius, generals against the Volscians.
Cominius,
Menenius Agrippa, friend to Coriolanus.
Sicinius Velutus, tribunes of the people.
Junius Brutus,
Young Marcius, son to Coriolanus.
A Roman Herald.
Tullus Aufidius, general of the Volscians.
Lieutenant to Aufidius.
Conspirators with Aufidius.
A Citizen of Antium.
Two Volscian Guards.
Volumnia, mother to Coriolanus.
Virgilia, wife to Coriolanus.
Valeria, friend to Virgilia.
Gentlewoman attending on Virgilia.
Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ædiles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.

Scene: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium[G].

[F] First given imperfectly by Rowe.

[G] Rome....] Edd. The Scene is partly in Rome and partly in the Territory of the Volscians. Rowe. The Scene.... Territories of the Volscians and Antiates. Theobald.

THE TRAGEDY OF

CORIOLANUS.