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Zusatztext “A remarkable edition! one that makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro! professor! Columbia University! bestselling author of A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599 “A feast of literary and historical information.”— The Wall Street Journal Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Klappentext The Signet Classics edition of Shakespeare's powerful tragedy of divided politics. One of the Bard's final tragedies, this is the story of an Ancient Roman soldier whose political machinations and military might gain him heroic status, but ultimately lead to his assassination. This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: • An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater • A special introduction to the play by the editor, Reuben Brower • Selections from Plutarch's Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, the source from which Shakespeare derived Coriolanus • Dramatic criticism from A. C. Bradley, Wyndham Lewis, D. A. Traversi, and others • A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text • And more...Act 1 Scene 1 running scene 1 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 You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? ALL Resolved, resolved. FIRST CITIZEN First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the people. ALL We know't, we know't. FIRST CITIZEN Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. Is't a verdict? ALL No more talking on't: let it be done: away, away. SECOND CITIZEN One word, good citizens. FIRST CITIZEN We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good: what authority surfeits on would relieve us. If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely: but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance: our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes. For the gods know, I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. SECOND CITIZEN Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius? ALL Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty. SECOND CITIZEN Consider you what services he has done for his country? FIRST CITIZEN Very well, and could be content to give him good report for't, but that he pays himself with being proud. ALL Nay, but speak not maliciously. FIRST CITIZEN I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue. SECOND CITIZEN What he cannot help in his nature, you account a vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous. FIRST CITIZEN If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations: he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. Shouts within What shouts are these? The other side o'th'city is risen: why stay we prating here? To th'Capitol! ALL Come, come. FIRST CITIZEN Soft, who comes here?
