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...

Rome. A street. Citizens: Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: Yo...

Rome. A street. Citizens: Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: Yo...

Corioli. The Senate-house. Tullus Aufidius: Enter Tullus Aufidius and certain Senators. First Senator: So, your opinion is, Aufidius, That they of Rome are entered in our counsels And know how we proc...

Rome. A room in Marcius’ house. Volumnia: Enter Volumnia and Virgilia: they set them down on two low stools, and sew. Volumnia: I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a more comfortable so...

Before Corioli. Marcius: Enter, with drum and colours, Marcius, Titus Lartius, Captains and Soldiers. To them a Messenger. Marcius: Yonder comes news. A wager they have met. Lartius: My horse to yours...

Corioli. A street. Romans: Enter certain Romans, with spoils. First Roman: This will I carry to Rome. Second Roman: And I this. Third Roman: A murrain on’t! I took this for silver. Alarum continues st...

Near the camp of Cominius. Cominius: Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with Soldiers. Cominius: Breathe you, my friends: well fought; we are come off Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, No...

The gates of Corioli. Titus Lartius: Titus Lartius, having set a guard upon Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward Cominius and Caius Marcius, enters with a Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scou...

A field of battle. Marcius: Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides, Marcius and Aufidius. Marcius: I’ll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee Worse than a promise-breaker. Aufidius: We...

The Roman camp. Cominius: Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, from one side, Cominius with the Romans; from the other side, Marcius, with his arm in a scarf. Cominius: If I should...

The camp of the Volsces. Tullus Aufidius: A flourish. Cornets. Enter Tullus Aufidius, bloody, with two or three Soldiers. Aufidius: The town is ta’en! First Soldier: ’Twill be deliver’d back on good c...

Rome. A public place. Menenius: Enter Menenius with the two Tribunes of the people, Sicinius and Brutus. Menenius: The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night. Brutus: Good or bad? Menenius: Not ...

Rome. A public place. Menenius: Enter Menenius with the two Tribunes of the people, Sicinius and Brutus. Menenius: The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night. Brutus: Good or bad? Menenius: Not ...

The same. The Capitol. Officers: Enter two Officers, to lay cushions. First Officer: Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand for consulships? Second Officer: Three, they say: but ’tis thought...

The same. The Forum. Citizens: Enter seven or eight Citizens. First Citizen: Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him. Second Citizen: We may, sir, if we will. Third Citizen: We hav...

Rome. A street. Coriolanus: Cornets. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, all the Gentry, Cominius, Titus Lartius, and other Senators. Coriolanus: Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Lartius: He had, my lo...

Rome. A street. Coriolanus: Cornets. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, all the Gentry, Cominius, Titus Lartius, and other Senators. Coriolanus: Tullus Aufidius then had made new head? Lartius: He had, my lo...

A room in Coriolanus’s house. Coriolanus: Enter Coriolanus with Patricians. Coriolanus: Let them puff all about mine ears, present me Death on the wheel or at wild horses’ heels, Or pile ten hills on ...

The same. The Forum. Sicinius: Enter Sicinius and Brutus. Brutus: In this point charge him home, that he affects Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people, And th...

Rome. Before a gate of the city. Coriolanus: Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, Cominius, with the young Nobility of Rome. Coriolanus: Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast ...

Rome. Before a gate of the city. Coriolanus: Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, Cominius, with the young Nobility of Rome. Coriolanus: Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast ...

The same. A street near the gate. Sicinius: Enter Sicinius, Brutus, and an Aedile. Sicinius: Bid them all home; he’s gone, and we’ll no further. The nobility are vex’d, whom we see have sided In his b...

A highway between Rome and Antium. Roman: Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting. Roman: I know you well, sir, and you know me: your name, I think, is Adrian. Volsce: It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot ...

Antium. Before Aufidius’s house. Coriolanus: Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled. Coriolanus: A goodly city is this Antium. City, ’Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir Of these...

The same. A hall in Aufidius’s house. Servingman: Music within. Enter a Servingman. First Servingman: Wine, wine, wine! What service is here! I think our fellows are asleep. Exit. Second Servingman: E...

Rome. A public place. Sicinius: Enter Sicinius and Brutus. Sicinius: We hear not of him, neither need we fear him; His remedies are tame i’ the present peace And quietness of the people, which before ...

A camp, at a small distance from Rome. Aufidius: Enter Aufidius and his Lieutenant. Aufidius: Do they still fly to the Roman? Lieutenant: I do not know what witchcraft’s in him, but Your soldiers use ...

Rome. A public place. Menenius: Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius, Brutus, and others. Menenius: No, I’ll not go: you hear what he hath said Which was sometime his general; who loved him In a most de...

Rome. A public place. Menenius: Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius, Brutus, and others. Menenius: No, I’ll not go: you hear what he hath said Which was sometime his general; who loved him In a most de...

Entrance of the Volscian camp before Rome. Two Sentinels on guard. Menenius: Enter to them, Menenius. First Senator: Stay: whence are you? Second Senator: Stand, and go back. Menenius: You guard like ...

The tent of Coriolanus. Coriolanus: Enter Coriolanus, Aufidius, and others. Coriolanus: We will before the walls of Rome to-morrow Set down our host. My partner in this action, You must report to the ...

Rome. A public place. Menenius: Enter Menenius and Sicinius. Menenius: See you yond coign o’ the Capitol, yond corner-stone? Sicinius: Why, what of that? Menenius: If it be possible for you to displac...

The same. A street near the gate. Senators: Enter two Senators with Volumnia, Virgilia, Valeria, etc., passing over the stage, followed by Patricians and others. First Senator: Behold our patroness, t...

Antium. A public place. Tullus Aufidius: Enter Tullus Aufidius, with Attendants. Aufidius: Go tell the lords o’ the city I am here: Deliver them this paper: having read it, Bid them repair to the mark...

When the First Folio was first published, a deficiency was discovered in act two, scene three of this play. Due to Shakespeare’s close adherence to Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, editors were able to deve...