Word: erford
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...uprising and downfall alike, Coriolanus (Erford Gage) commands admiration. The fickle, "garlic-eating'' mob is brought on largely to be sneered at; the wily tribunes of the people slink about as if they expected hisses. All this is faithful to Shakespeare's intentions; but, whatever Shakespeare's sympathies, it is no wronged hero he portrays-Coriolanus is a flawed, fissured, overpassionate man whose intemperate actions are his undoing...