Coriolanus
Play by William ShakespeareWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
The mob, with its easily swayed passions, is the sort of thing that it's in his blood to hate.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
If he had to sue for its support like Coriolanus, he would act exactly as Coriolanus did.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
Fortunately, he doesn't need it.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
The Clements have had money for generations, not according to Pittsburgh standards, but the way the Clements reckon money.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
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Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
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Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Act 1.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Scene 3.
speaker_2NARRATOR
We are piqued to some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not again shame us.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Under this head, too, falls that homage, very pure as I think, which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to Pitt, Lafayette, Wellington, Webster, Lamartine.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Hear the shouts in the street.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The people cannot see him enough.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
The mob, with its easily swayed passions, is the sort of thing that it's in his blood to hate.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
If he had to sue for its support like Coriolanus, he would act exactly as Coriolanus did.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
Fortunately, he doesn't need it.
MJ RodriguezNARRATOR
The Clements have had money for generations, not according to Pittsburgh standards, but the way the Clements reckon money.
Andrea KotzerNARRATOR
The reason is that no playwright has arisen in the world since eighteen twenty-one whose imagination was sufficiently immense to cope with the unlimited theatrical fertility of Napoleon himself.
Andrea KotzerNARRATOR
Unfortunately for the drama, the author of Coriolanus died so long ago as sixteen sixteen.
Andrea KotzerNARRATOR
Napoleon is not a character to be depicted by Pinero or Hauptmann or Brieux.
Andrea KotzerNARRATOR
Many attempts by secondary playwrights to exhibit Napoleon as the hero of a drama have met with swift disaster.
Connie BrooksHOST
Next question.
Connie BrooksHOST
What plays did Shakespeare write between the two entitled Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Coriolanus?
Stretch SnodgrassGUEST
Where did everybody go? Would you repeat the question, please? Certainly.
Connie BrooksHOST
What plays did Shakespeare write between the two entitled Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Coriolanus?
Stretch SnodgrassGUEST
Um...
Stretch SnodgrassGUEST
Uh...
Charlotte AhlinHOST
Um, yeah.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
Little Lucius, I think really, I mean, he, he's an echo of our favorite [laughs] character from Coriolanus, is baby Coriolanus.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
Do you remember him? He's-
Danielle CohnHOST
Oh, yeah
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Danielle CohnHOST
Yay.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
Um [laughs]
Danielle CohnHOST
Which is what I wanted for Coriolanus.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
Yeah, I think I'm basically s- just stealing your idea from Coriolanus.
Donovan DorranceHOST
That's a thing to say.
Jane WrightHOST
He's like, I'm going to read Coriolanus when I'm like 60.
Jane WrightHOST
And I was like.
Jane WrightHOST
That's crazy.
John LeaderNARRATOR
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John LeaderNARRATOR
Coriolanus.
John LeaderNARRATOR
Criticism is oddly undecided about Coriolanus.
John LeaderNARRATOR
It is because Coriolanus is the most neglected of Shakespeare's greater plays.
John LeaderNARRATOR
Or is the play neglected because of the indecision it provokes? The divergence of opinion about it is extraordinary.
John LeaderNARRATOR
Mr. Lytton Strachey, for instance, has lately declared that rhetoric enormously magnificent and extraordinarily elaborate is the beginning and the middle and the end of Coriolanus.
John LeaderNARRATOR
The hero is not a human being at all.
John LeaderNARRATOR
Mr. Bernard Shaw, on the other hand, puts Coriolanus with Falconbridge as admirable descriptions of instinctive temperaments and says with intelligible paradox that the play of Coriolanus is the greatest of Shakespeare's comedies.
Philip RoweHOST
Episode 231, Death by Shakespeare, a conversation with Catherine Harkup.
Philip RoweHOST
Last time, Coriolanus met his end at the point of a sword, quite a common form of death in Shakespeare's plays, but far from the only means of demise that befalls his characters.
Philip RoweHOST
In fact, Shakespeare is noted for the diversity of deaths in the plays, and the way that he represents the mechanics of those deaths.
Philip RoweHOST
My guest for this episode has written a book on that very subject, Death by Shakespeare, whose subtitle, Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts, gives just a hint of that diversity.
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