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Joining the Volscian commander Aufidius (Julian Glover), Coriolanus leads an army toward Rome, determined to burn the city. Only the heart-wrenching plea of his mother Volumnia (Maxine Audley) deters him, after which Aufidius slays...
...only other serious objection concerns the unhappy wisp of men who represent the Roman and Volscian crowds, Senators, Guards, etc. and etc. Of course one expects to find the same faces in opposing armies, and one expects "crowds" to be small in number, but unfortunately the mob has a very important part in the construction of the play, since it is Coriolanus' distaste for the common herd which sets the whole plot in motion. But one cannot imagine his being the least bit aroused by the six or seven who, hot from their most recent costume change, are set against...
...emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...
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