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  • DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  • ACT 1
  • ACT 2
  • ACT 3
  • ACT 4
  • ACT 5

    • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (eds. W. G. Clark, W. Aldis Wright)

    Editions and translations: English (ed. John Heminge, Henry Condell) | English (ed. W. G. Clark, W. Aldis Wright) | English (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) | English (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.)
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    DRAMATIS PERSONAE

    • CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS
        • generals against the Volscians.
      • Titus Lartius
      • Cominius
    • Menenius Agrippa, : friend to Coriolanus.
        • tribunes of the people.
      • Sicinius Velutus
      • 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.
    • Adrian
    • Ladies
    • Lords
    • Aedile, an
    • Messenger
    • Nicanor
    • Noble, a
    • Officers
    • Patrician, a
    • Roman, a
    • Romans
    • Senators (Roman)
    • Senators (Of Corioles)
    • Servingmen
    • Soldiers
    • Titus Lartius
    • Velutus, Sicinius
    • Volsce, a
    • Aufidius, Tullus
    • Citizens

    There are a total of 47 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Clifford E. Wulfman, The Perseus Garner: An Overview:
    1 [The Works of Shakespeare]

    Cross references from William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.):
    * [Newman.]: 'Well what then? How shall this bisson multitude diges The Senate's courtesy?'
    * [Collier.]: 'Unheard of boils and plagues Plaster you o'er'
    * [Collier.]: 'To brook control without the use of anger '
    * [Malone]: "He lurch'd all swords of the garland "
    * [Malone]: "--now humble as the ripest mulberry Which cannot bear the handling "
    * [G. Chalmers]: '--For your wants Your suffering in this dearth you may as well Strike at the Heaven with your staves as lift them Against the Roman state --For the dearth The Gods not the patricians make it '
    * [G. Chalmers]: 'Now humble as the ripest mulberry That will not hold the handling '
    * [Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps]: How more | unfor|tunately | than all | living | women
    * [Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps]: How more | unfortunate|ly than | all liv|ing wom|en
    * [F. A. Leo]: Of the same House Publius and Quintus were That our best Water brought by Conduits hither
    * [Verity]: 'Come let us go This fellow had a Volscian to his mother '
    * [William Hazlitt]: 'Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome And occupations perish '
    * [William Hazlitt]: 'Pray now no more my mother Who has a charter to extol her blood When she does praise me grieves me '
    * [Furnivall]: 'The moon of Rome chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple '--
    * [Dowden]: 'O a kiss Long as my exile sweet as my revenge Now by the jealous queen of heaven that kiss I carried from thee dear and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e'er since '
    * [Dowden]: 'The god of soldiers With the consent of supreme Jove inform Thy thoughts with nobleness that thou may'st prove To shame unvulnerable and stick i' the wars Like a great sea-mark standing every flaw And saving those that eye thee '
    * [Dowden]: 'Chaste as the icicle That's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple '
    * [Dowden]: 'You speak o' the people as if you were a god To punish not a man of their infirmity '
    * [Stapfer]: 'You speak o' the people as if you were a god To punish not a man of their infirmity'
    * [Stapfer]: 'Woollen vassals things created To buy and sell with groats to show bare heads In congregations to yawn be still and wonder When one but of my ordinance stood up To speak of peace or war '
    * [Stapfer]: 'They have a leader Tullus Aufidius ... And were I anything but what I am I would wish me only he Were half to half the world by the ears and he Upon my party I'd revolt to make Only my wars with him '
    * [Stapfer]: 'My country must command against what foe I am to fight my duty is to obey A soldier's lightest glory doth consist In full obedience to his country's word And he who lets a single thought intrude Of private ends deserves the name of traitor And now Rome bids me draw my sword I arm And tarry not to reason '
    * [Stapfer]: 'You common cry of curs whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens whose loves I prize As the dead carcases of unburied men That do corrupt my air I banish you ... Despising For you the city thus I turn my back There is a world elsewhere '

    Cross references from William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus: Appendix (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.):
    COLLIERS TRILOGY [Newman.]: 'Well what then? How shall this bisson multitude diges The Senate's courtesy?'
    COLLIERS TRILOGY [Collier.]: 'Unheard of boils and plagues Plaster you o'er'
    COLLIERS TRILOGY [Collier.]: 'To brook control without the use of anger '
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, Malone [Malone]: "He lurch'd all swords of the garland "
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, Malone [Malone]: "--now humble as the ripest mulberry Which cannot bear the handling "
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, G. Chalmers [G. Chalmers]: '--For your wants Your suffering in this dearth you may as well Strike at the Heaven with your staves as lift them Against the Roman state --For the dearth The Gods not the patricians make it '
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, G. Chalmers [G. Chalmers]: 'Now humble as the ripest mulberry That will not hold the handling '
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps [Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps]: How more | unfor|tunately | than all | living | women
    DATE OF COMPOSITION, Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps [Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps]: How more | unfortunate|ly than | all liv|ing wom|en
    SOURCE OF THE PLOT, F. A. Leo [F. A. Leo]: Of the same House Publius and Quintus were That our best Water brought by Conduits hither
    SOURCE OF THE PLOT, Verity [Verity]: 'Come let us go This fellow had a Volscian to his mother '
    CRITICISMS, William Hazlitt [William Hazlitt]: 'Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome And occupations perish '
    CRITICISMS, William Hazlitt [William Hazlitt]: 'Pray now no more my mother Who has a charter to extol her blood When she does praise me grieves me '
    CRITICISMS, Furnivall [Furnivall]: 'The moon of Rome chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple '--
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Dowden [Dowden]: 'O a kiss Long as my exile sweet as my revenge Now by the jealous queen of heaven that kiss I carried from thee dear and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e'er since '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Dowden [Dowden]: 'The god of soldiers With the consent of supreme Jove inform Thy thoughts with nobleness that thou may'st prove To shame unvulnerable and stick i' the wars Like a great sea-mark standing every flaw And saving those that eye thee '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Dowden [Dowden]: 'Chaste as the icicle That's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Dowden [Dowden]: 'You speak o' the people as if you were a god To punish not a man of their infirmity '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Stapfer [Stapfer]: 'You speak o' the people as if you were a god To punish not a man of their infirmity'
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Stapfer [Stapfer]: 'Woollen vassals things created To buy and sell with groats to show bare heads In congregations to yawn be still and wonder When one but of my ordinance stood up To speak of peace or war '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Stapfer [Stapfer]: 'They have a leader Tullus Aufidius ... And were I anything but what I am I would wish me only he Were half to half the world by the ears and he Upon my party I'd revolt to make Only my wars with him '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Stapfer [Stapfer]: 'My country must command against what foe I am to fight my duty is to obey A soldier's lightest glory doth consist In full obedience to his country's word And he who lets a single thought intrude Of private ends deserves the name of traitor And now Rome bids me draw my sword I arm And tarry not to reason '
    CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, Stapfer [Stapfer]: 'You common cry of curs whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens whose loves I prize As the dead carcases of unburied men That do corrupt my air I banish you ... Despising For you the city thus I turn my back There is a world elsewhere '

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    William Shakespeare. W. G. Clark. W. Aldis Wright. The Globe Shakespeare. New York. Nelson Doubleday, Inc.


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