* During a famine in Rome, Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus advises that the people should not receive grain unless they would consent to the abolition of the office of tribune.

Also, the legendary Roman warrior Gaius Marcius Coriolanus earned his cognomen after taking the Volscian town of Corioli in 493 BC.

Rather, the rock was reserved for the most notorious traitors, and as a place of unofficial, extra-legal executions ( for example, the near-execution of then-Senator Gaius Marcius Coriolanus by a mob whipped into frenzy by a tribune of the plebs ).

* Alan Howard as Gaius Marcius Coriolanus

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The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.

Also in 493, Lartius served as legate to the consul Cominius, his colleague in 501, at the siege of Corioli, where Gaius Marcius Coriolanus gained fame through his valor.

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For example, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus earned his from the capture of Corioli.

* Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus

Veturia was a Roman matron, the mother of the possibly legendary Roman general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.

Corioli, an ancient Volscian city in Latium adiectum, taken, according to the Roman annals in 493 BC, with Longula and Pollusca, and retaken for the Volsci by Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, its original conqueror, who, in disgust at his treatment by his countrymen, had deserted to the enemy.

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Thus, the Via Gabina ( during the time of Porsena ) is mentioned in about 500 BC ; the Via Latina ( during the time of Coriolanus ) in about 490 BC ; the Via Nomentana, or Via Ficulensis, in 449 BC ; the Via Labicana in 421 BC ; and the Via Salaria in 361 BC.

His fellow actor Robert Hardy said, " His Coriolanus is quite easily the best I've ever seen " but Hamlet was " too strong ".

It is one of several Roman plays that Shakespeare wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.

The story of Titus Andronicus is fictional, not historical, unlike Shakespeare's other Roman plays, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, all of which are based on real historical events and people.

There was a medieval belief that fish were so mesmerised by the Osprey that they turned belly-up in surrender, and this is referenced by Shakespeare in Act 4 Scene 5 of Coriolanus:

The supposed rise and fall of this hero is chronicled in Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

Shakespeare is an author of political theatre according to some academic scholars, who observe that his history plays examine the machinations of personal drives and passions determining political activity and that many of the tragedies such as King Lear and Macbeth dramatize political leadership and complexity subterfuges of human beings driven by the lust for power ; for example, they observe that class struggle in the Roman Republic is central to Coriolanus.

Tullus Aufidius is a major character in the tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

Performance history in Shakespeare's lifetime is unknown, though the same is also true of his more highly regarded plays such as Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, which most scholars believe were written in the same period.

The play's date is uncertain, though its bitter tone links it with Coriolanus and King Lear.

The play is noteworthy for its bitter and caustic nature, similar to the works that Shakespeare was writing in the 1605 – 08 period, King Lear, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens.

He played a huge number of parts, including a large number of Shakespearean characters and also a great many in plays now forgotten, in his own version of Coriolanus, which was revived during his first season, the character of the " noble Roman " was so exactly suited to his powers that he not only played it with a perfection that has never been approached, but, it is said, unconsciously allowed its influence to colour his private manner and modes of speech.

* Caius is also the name of characters in several other Shakespeare plays ; for example, he is the protagonist in Coriolanus.

There is a particular similarity to the story of Juba in La Calprenède's romance Cléopâtre, who becomes a slave in Rome and is given a Roman name — Coriolanus — by his captors, as Oroonoko is given the Roman name of Caesar.

Coriolanus () is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

Coriolanus is hesitant to do this, but he bows to his mother's wishes.

Coriolanus retorts that it is he who banishes Rome from his presence.

Finally, Volumnia is sent to meet with her son, along with Coriolanus ' wife Virgilia and child, and a chaste gentlewoman Valeria.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

At the end of the act, the characters are about to finish when they realize that they forgot to perform Coriolanus which Adam refuses to do due the vulgarity of the title and Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest work.

Coriolanus has fewer familiar characters than either Troilus and Cressida or Antony and Cleopatra, yet it shares thematic interests with these plays.

* Coriolan-the story of Coriolanus

* The mother of Coriolanus, a legendary Roman general who lived in the 5th century BC, and whose story was told by Plutarch, Livy, and Shakespeare

As the story is told, Coriolanus was expelled from Rome in the early fifth century BC because he demanded the abolition of the people's tribunate in return for distributing state grain to the starving plebeians.

In Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, the character of Coriolanus ' mother performs much the same function as in the Roman story, but her name has been changed to " Volumnia.

In his play Coriolanus, Shakespeare references the aediles.

Shakespearean scholar David Haley notes that in order to have written Coriolanus, Edward de Vere " must have foreseen the Midland Revolt grain riots 1607 reported in Coriolanus ", a view most Shakespeareans accept.

Coriolanus then takes refuge with the King of the Volsci and leads the Volscian army against Rome, turning back only in response to entreaties from his mother and his wife.

These include his four major tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, along with Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar and the lesser-known Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida.

Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( as Coriolanus ), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.

Burton was still juggling theatre with film, playing Hamlet and Coriolanus at the Old Vic theatre in 1953 and alternating the roles of Iago and Othello with the Old Vic's other rising matinee idol John Neville.

His reviews in Hamlet were good but he received stronger praise for Coriolanus.

* Coriolanus captures the Volscian town of Corioli for Rome.

Geoffrey Bullough argues that Lucius ' character arc ( estrangement from his father followed by banishment followed by a glorious return to avenge his family honour ) was probably based on Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus.

In 1959 she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( in the title role ), Albert Finney and Edith Evans.

Critics suggest that Shakespeare did similar work with these sources in Othello, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.

* " The Gods sent not corn for the rich men only "-William Shakespeare in Coriolanus, 1. 1, 213.

Image: Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus, by Thomas Woolner. jpg | " Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus " in Strawberry Hill House

In 1967, he left the NT for the Birmingham Repertory Company, which was to give him his first crack at the title roles in Othello ( his favourite ), Macbeth and Coriolanus.