The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
V. 10. 31. Here Capell inserts the passage '_Pan._ Do you hear ...
deeds,' V. 3. 97-111, and after Troilus's speech, 'What now?' gives the
stage direction 'Exeunt Æneas, and Trojans.'
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.
ACT I.
SCENE I. _Rome. A street._[2455]
_Enter a company of mutinous_ Citizens, _with staves, clubs, and other
weapons_.
_First Cit._ Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.
_All._ Speak, speak.[2456]
_First Cit._ You are all resolved rather to die than to
famish?
_All._ Resolved, resolved. 5
_First Cit._ First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy[2457]
to the people.
_All._ We know't, we know't.[2458]
_First Cit._ Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our
own price. Is't a verdict? 10
_All._ No more talking on't; let it be done: away,[2459]
away!
_Sec. Cit._ One word, good citizens.
_First Cit._ We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians,
good. What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they[2460] 15
would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome,
we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think[2461]
we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of[2462]
our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance;
our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this[2463] 20
with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I[2464]
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
_Sec. Cit._ Would you proceed especially against Caius
Marcius?[2465]
_All._ Against him first: he's a very dog to the[2466] 25
commonalty.
_Sec. Cit._ Consider you what services he has done for
his country?
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