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Coriolanus
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Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare
John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus by Thomas Lawrence, 1798
"Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus" by Thomas Woolner
An 1800 painting by Richard Westall of Volumnia pleading with Coriolanus not to destroy Rome.
The first page of The Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus from Thomas North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes.