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Coriolanus (/ kɒriəˈleɪnəs / or /- ˈlɑː -/ [1]) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same years he wrote Antony and Cleopatra, making them his last two tragedies.
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Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that was first performed around 1609. Like Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, it is a Roman play. But unlike those plays, it is not set in the Imperial Rome of the first century CE, but more than two centuries earlier, when Rome was just one Italian city among many, fighting for survival.
Coriolanus: Entire Play. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. First Citizen. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All.
Thou worthiest CORIOLANUS! [Exit CORIOLANUS] Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place; Call thither all the officers o' the town, Where they shall know our mind: away!
A summary of Shakespeare's Roman war tragedy, Coriolanus. Famine in Rome is causing unrest between the common people and the patricians (the aristocrats of Rome). The people particularly resent the arrogant Caius Martius, son of Volumnia, who makes no secret of the fact that he despises them.
Coriolanus frustrates the model of selfhood associated with Hamlet, who defines the tragic hero of Shakespeare’s mature plays for modern critics and audiences.
Full Title: The Tragedy of Coriolanus When Written: 1607-1608 Where Written: London, England When Published: 1623 Genre: Tragedy Setting: The early Roman republic and the Volscian towns of Corioles and Antium Climax: Coriolanus leads a Volscian army to conquer Rome but is confronted and stopped by his family. Antagonist: Tullus Aufidius
