Shakespeare For All

Coriolanus Part 3 - The Language

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Part 3 features close-readings of four key speeches and scenes that set out the play’s central dilemma, as they speak for a cooperative political community and the elite warrior ideal that Coriolanus is meant to embody.

Speeches and Performers:

  • Menenius, citizens, and Martius, Act 1, “I shall tell you a pretty tale …” (David Collins)
  • Volumnia and Virgilia, Act 1, “If my son were my husband…” (Joyce Branagh)
  • Coriolanus, Act 3, “Well, I must do ‘t…” (Keith Hamilton Cobb)
  • Cominius and Menenius, Act 4, “He is their god …” (David Collins)


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