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Drama, gender & the body

Coriolanus

Act 1, Scene 8

Modern spelling. Stage directions omitted.

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MARTIUS

I’ll fight with none but , for I do hate
Worse than a promise-breaker.

AUFIDIUS

We hate alike.
Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
More than fame and envy. Fix foot.

MARTIUS

Let the first budger die the other’s slave,
And the gods doom him after!

AUFIDIUS

If I fly, Martius,
Hollo me like a hare.

MARTIUS

Within these three hours, Tullus,
Alone I fought in your Corioles’ walls,
And made what work I pleased. not my blood
Wherein seest me masked. For revenge
Wrench up power to th’ highest.

AUFIDIUS

Wert the Hector
That was the whip of your bragged progeny,
not scape me here.

AUFIDIUS

Officious and not valiant, you have shamed me
In your condemned seconds.

All of Coriolanus

Act 1

Act 1, Scene 1Act 1, Scene 2Act 1, Scene 3Act 1, Scene 4Act 1, Scene 5Act 1, Scene 6Act 1, Scene 7Act 1, Scene 8Act 1, Scene 9Act 1, Scene 10,

Act 2

Act 2, Scene 1Act 2, Scene 2Act 2, Scene 3,

Act 3

Act 3, Scene 1Act 3, Scene 2Act 3, Scene 3,

Act 4

Act 4, Scene 1Act 4, Scene 2Act 4, Scene 3Act 4, Scene 4Act 4, Scene 5Act 4, Scene 6Act 4, Scene 7,

Act 5

Act 5, Scene 1Act 5, Scene 2Act 5, Scene 3Act 5, Scene 4Act 5, Scene 5Act 5, Scene 6

Open Coriolanus in the 1623 First Folio. See its words in the cloud.

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