Coriolanus

Name: Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

free · 29,556 words · 3 h 19 m audiobook, read by volunteers for LibriVox · first published 1623

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Dramatis Personae

Caius Marcius, afterwards Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Titus Lartius, general against the Volscians
Cominius, general against the Volscians
Menenius Agrippa, friend to Coriolanus
Sicinius Velutus, tribune of the people
Junius Brutus, tribune of the people
Young Marcius, son to Coriolanus
A Roman herald
Tullus Aufidius, general of the Volscians
Lieutenant to Aufidius
Conspirators with Aufidius
A citizen of Antium
Volumnia, mother to Coriolanus
Virgilia, wife to Coriolanus
Valeria, friend to Virgilia
Gentlewoman, attending on Virgilia
Roman and Volscian senators, patricians, aediles, lictors, soldiers, citizens, messengers, servants to Aufidius, and other attendants

Scene: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium.

Act I

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

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Dramatis Personae

Caius Marcius, afterwards Caius Marcius Coriolanus

Titus Lartius, general against the Volscians

Cominius, general against the Volscians

Menenius Agrippa, friend to Coriolanus

Sicinius Velutus, tribune of the people

Junius Brutus, tribune of the people

Young Marcius, son to Coriolanus

A Roman herald

Tullus Aufidius, general of the Volscians

Lieutenant to Aufidius

Conspirators with Aufidius

A citizen of Antium

Volumnia, mother to Coriolanus

Virgilia, wife to Coriolanus

Valeria, friend to Virgilia

Gentlewoman, attending on Virgilia

Roman and Volscian senators, patricians, aediles, lictors, soldiers, citizens, messengers, servants to Aufidius, and other attendants

Scene: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium.

More by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

You get a play that keeps changing its mind about love, from the quarrelling lovers in the forest to Bottom blundering through his amateur performance. The language is playful and slippery, and Puck gives the whole thing a mischievous sense that human beings are never quite in control.

All’s Well That Ends Well

Helena chases a man who plainly doesn't deserve her, and the play knows it, which is what makes it interesting. If you like your comedies uneasy, with a bed trick and an ending that only half convinces, this one will stick with you.

Antony and Cleopatra

These two aren't young lovers, they're middle-aged, vain, magnificent messes who keep wrecking empires over each other, and you half want to shake them. Stay for Enobarbus, the dry-eyed friend whose barge speech about Cleopatra is worth the whole play.