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welcome plays sonnets analysis quotations sources biography theatres key dates plots faq books glossary scholars quiz search	Coriolanus Dramatis Personae. Act 1 Scene 1. Rome. A street. Scene 2. Corioli. The Senate-house. Scene 3. Rome. A room in Marcius' house. Scene 4. Before Corioli. Scene 5. Corioli. A street. Scene 6. Near the camp of Cominius. Scene 7. The gates of Corioli. Scene 8. A field of battle. Scene 9. The Roman camp. Scene 10. The camp of the Volsces. Act 2 Scene 1. Rome. A public place. Scene 2. The same. The Capitol. Scene 3. The same. The Forum. Act 3 Scene 1. Rome. A street. Scene 2. A room in CORIOLANUS'S house. Scene 3. The same. The Forum. Act 4 Scene 1. Rome. Before a gate of the city. Scene 2. The same. A street near the gate. Scene 3. A highway between Rome and Antium. Scene 4. Antium. Before Aufidius's house. Scene 5. The same. A hall in Aufidius's house. Scene 6. Rome. A public place. Scene 7. A camp, at a small distance from Rome. Act 5 Scene 1. Rome. A public place. Scene 2. Entrance of the Volscian camp before Rome. Scene 3. The tent of Coriolanus. Scene 4. Rome. A public place. Scene 5. The same. A street near the gate. Scene 6. Antium. A public place. Next: Coriolanus, List of Characters _________ Related Articles  Roman Life: The Ideal of the State in Shakespeare's Coriolanus  Shakespeare's Sources for Coriolanus  Coriolanus: Plot Summary  Top 10 Shakespeare Plays  Shakespeare's Metaphors and Similes  Characteristics of Shakespeare's Plays  Seneca's Tragedies and Elizabethan Drama  Shakespeare's Blank Verse  Julius Caesar Overview  Julius Caesar Summary (Acts 1 and 2)  Julius Caesar Summary (Acts 3 and 4)  Julius Caesar Summary (Act 5)  Blank Verse and Diction in Julius Caesar  Julius Caesar Character Introduction  Julius Caesar: Analysis by Act and Scene (and Timeline)  Julius Caesar Study Questions (with Detailed Answers)  Julius Caesar Quotations (Top 10)  Julius Caesar Quotations (Full)  All About Et tu, Brute?  How to Pronounce the Names in Julius Caesar  Sources for Julius Caesar: Important Excerpts from Plutarch  Shakespeare's Adaptation of Plutarch's Julius Caesar  Plutarch's Influence on Shakespeare  What is Tragic Irony?  Seneca's Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama  Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama In the Spotlight Quote in Context You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical; As if I loved my little should be dieted In praises sauced with lies. Coriolanus (1.9), Caius Martius, later named Coriolanus "The action of the play, no less than the character-drawing, is founded on this antithesis of principle and compromise, the state and the individual. The entanglement of the plot lies essentially in the opening situation, and not until the fifth act in the conduct of the hero. In the earlier part all the action serves to display the grandeur of the principal figure; it is not simply service, but magnificent achievement, at the price of infinite self-devotion, with Coriolanus rejecting all reward, and resisting the honours all are thrusting upon him, up to the point where further resistance would be exalting his personal feeling against the public voice. [I.ix.53-60]." [Richard G. Moulton, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Thinker] ____ Coriolanus in the News Be sure to see the new version of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, starring Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus, Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius and Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia. Although film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have been constant since Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree's production of King John (1899), Coriolanus itself has not been a popular choice. Three television adaptations of the play were produced, however, including the 1963 UK mini-series The Spread of the Eagle, starring Robert Hardy as Coriolanus. ____
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