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Coriolanus: Act 5, Scenes 4-6
Coriolanus and Aufidius have a messy breakup. (All Aufidius wanted was a relationship on equal footing! But Coriolanus just had to bow to the whims of…
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Coriolanus: Act 5, Scene 3
It’s up to Volumnia to save the day!
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Coriolanus: Act 5, Scenes 1 & 2
Not even Menenius can sway Coriolanus’s position.
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Coriolanus: Act 4, Scenes 6 & 7
Loyalties shift rapidly across the board.
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Coriolanus: Act 4, Scene 5
A homoerotic confession, just in time for Pride Month!
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Coriolanus: Act 4, Scenes 1-4
Volumnia and Virgilia bite back at Coriolanus’s banishers. Also, Coriolanus turns to an (un)likely ally.
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Coriolanus: Act 3, Scenes 1 & 2
In which the public banishes Coriolanus, but he believes in the power of “a world elsewhere.”
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Coriolanus: Act 3, Scene 1
The mutiny unfolds with more bodily metaphors! (And in the public’s defense, Coriolanus is a classist jerk.)
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Coriolanus: Act 2, Scene 3
Brutus and Sicinius incite a mutiny.
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Coriolanus: Act 2, Scene 2
Coriolanus does not desire public voyeurism of his scars.
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Coriolanus: Act 2, Scene 1
Volumnia and Menenius boast about how many wounds Coriolanus has. (And there’s nothing objectifying whatsoever about that.)
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Coriolanus: Act 1, Scenes 7-10
There’s absolutely nothing homoerotic between Martius and Aufidius... Also, Martius earns a new name!
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