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0: LEGEND
The short unofficial synopsis is to help those who haven't seen the film and don't know the play.
The map symbols are a bit of a masala. Under key cities, you may find reviews as well as the place's historical significance.
Volanco: A Short Unofficial Synopsis...in three parts
Sun, and Cloud over Sun: key locations in the play
Movie Camera: key film locations for Coriolanus (2011)
Purple Camera: posters for theatrical and film versions of Coriolanus
Fire: Shakespeare's inspiration and the roots of his tragic creation
Pink drawing pin: additional interviews and reviews Coriolanus (2011)
Blue boat: some port cities in Volscian territory, their history, ancient and some modern
Soldier pointing: this legend and more information about the map.
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1: More about this map
Justin's map of Macbeth's Scotland was my inspiration to do this in Google Maps.
Coriolanus (2011) posters & video copyright The Weinstein Company. Copyright for all linked material belongs to the producers of the original works.
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2: What's the story? Here's a sketch. (I)
Food shortages have Romans in a stranglehold. Tribunes Brutus and Sicinius have been appointed by the Roman Senate to speak for the people. General Caius Marcius (Ralph Fiennes) is a brilliant but inflexible soldier. After a fiercely violent battle for Corioli, fought almost single-handed, Caius Marcius emerges bloodied and victorious. For his courage, the general Cominus gives him the cognomen, Coriolanus.
On his return to Rome, he kneels before Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave), his mother, to ask for her blessing. Since his childhood, she has rejoiced in every injury and hurt her son received as badges of his bravery. In honour of it, the Senate offers him the Consulship. He wants to become Consul, but is told by his advisor, Menenius (Brian Cox), that he must be humble when he asks the people for their support.
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3: What's the story? Here's a sketch. (II)
But proud high-born Coriolanus has suffered so many wounds for his country. He doesn't understand what all politicians know: that he doesn't have to believe the lines, he just has to say them as if he does. He can't see why he has to go to the people at all, after all the battles he fought for his country. In asking the people, he shows his distaste for them. Yet they do give him their support.
Later, tribunes Sicinius (James Nesbitt) and Brutus (Paul Jesson) tell the people that the roots of their hunger lie in Coriolanus' hands: he does not think they deserve to eat. The forum almost descends into a riot, and Coriolanus is banished.
Setting out aimlessly, he ends up in Antium, the Volscian capital, where he begs Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler), leader of the Volsci, to kill him or let him join his forces. Aufidius gives him command of the Volsci forces. After joining his erstwhile enemies, through his leadership style and camaraderie with the men, Coriolanus outdoes Aufidius and arouses his jealousy.
The Volsci march off to Rome to conquer it and lay siege to the city. Roman leaders' entreaties to Coriolanus to retreat are rejected. But then Volumnia, Coriolanus' mother, comes to Rome's aid.
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4: What's the story? Here's a sketch. (III)
She begs Coriolanus to withdraw the Volscian army and save Rome. Forever in the orbit of her power, Coriolanus complies and withdraws all forces. When he returns to Aufidius in Antium, the Volscian general accuses him of betrayal. Aufidius has Coriolanus killed. Afterwards, he proclaims Coriolanus "shall have a noble memory."
The above synopsis is loosely based on the one in A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays by Kenneth McLeish & Stephen Unwin.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's Coriolanus plot summary is followed by its performance history for this play.
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5: Coriolanus (2011) - For your voices I have fought, poster
Ralph Fiennes as Caius Marcius Coriolanus in Coriolanus (2011).
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6: Coriolanus (2011) - book cover
Cover for the Arden Edition of Coriolanus.
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8: Rome, Italy - the play's the thing: text, official websites, trailer
Ralph Fiennes & Gerard Butler in Coriolanus (2011), Japanese poster.
The play opens here. Coriolanus, full text & e-book: Project Gutenberg. First Folio edition online (State Library of New South Wales). Here's the wiki for Coriolanus, and some of the play's famous quotations.
For analysis, essays, history, sources check out The Perseus Project, Tufts University. The play was the last of Shakespeare's tragedies.
Here is the official UK trailer: Coriolanus (2011), and the film's official websites: the US Site, the UK Site, the Japanese Site.
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9: Coriolanus (2011) - There's no more mercy, poster
Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus (2011).
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10: Where's Corioli? A possible location
Scholars seem to agree that Corioli has disappeared off the maps into oblivion.
The Capture of Carthage by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725-29. "The battle has been identified tentatively as the great victory of Gaius Marius over fierce Teutonic tribes in Lombardy in 101 B.C." Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art database.
The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography speculates on Corioli's location. Here's a map of Coriolanus' campaigns and a possible location of Corioli. On page 9, the Oxford edition of the play, presents a map "showing Roman and Volscian territories" that also contains a possible location. Courtesy University of South Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse here's a map called, "Vicinity of Ancient Rome, Early Ages of the World." It shows Corioli, in the yellow section, some 20 miles north-west of Antium, the Volscian capital on the coast.
Siege and capture of Coriole, unattributed. Courtesy art247.com
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11: Coriolanus (2011) - Caius Marcius Coriolanus gun poster
Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus (2011).
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12: Velletri, Rome, Volscian territory
Here's a map of Volsci territory and a description of Volscian-Roman relations. William Shepherd's The Historical Atlas (1911) has this detailed map that also shows Volscian territory (part of Latium, in pink), courtesty the University of Texas Libraries. You can see the other maps in the Atlas here.
Volsci territory, map by Wikipedia User Semperf, public domain.
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13: Ostia Antica, Volscian territory
Explore Ancient Ostia on Bing map and Ostia's ancient ruins from the sky. Ostia, Harbour City of Ancient Rome contains images, texts, movies, museum links...a storehouse of information about this fascinating place (Click image below for more as well.).
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14: Coriolanus (2011) - Russian poster
Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus (2011) with Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius, leader of the Volsci.
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15: Terracina Latina, Volscian Territory
Some interesting pictures on flickr, and Terracina Travel Guide's stunning images of the "old town." For a little more geographical context, here's Italy: A Complete Guide to 1000 Towns & Cities & their landmarks. (Click image below for more also.)
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16: The Capitol, refers to Capitoline Hill, Rome
360 degree images of Capitoline Hill today, along with photographs on flickr.The original Marcus Aurelius statue, many other images, background and a virtual tour at the Musei Capitolini. Capitoline Museums on wikipedia, with more images and video. A brief history of the Seven Hills of Rome, including Capitoline, with photographs. University of Southern California and partners have been working on a digital model of ancient Rome, Rome Reborn, with images and incredible video tour.
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17: The Forum, Rome
The Forum on wikipedia, with beautiful images, and historical detail. The Digital Roman Forum modelled it digitally, based on historical sources. Rick Steves explores the Forum in his TV series. Aroadtraveled.com takes a walk through the area, starting at one of the gates. How similar is Ancient Rome to contemporary London. The BBC checks it out. WorldSitesGuide.com has put together a stunning video of the site as well. There's quite a selection of images on flickr. Christian Hülsen's 1906, The Roman Forum: its History & its Monuments, has been reproduced, by Bill Thayer, with his remarkable photography.
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18: Antium, Volscian capital, present day Anzio
Tullus Aufidius Volscian stronghold is here. A fascinating, detailed entry on Antium in The Dictionary of Greek & Roman Geography. Emperors Nero and Caligula were born in Antium. With Cicero, they stand amongst the ancient city's most famous owners of lavish villas. A flickr search provided these images of the city's ancient past. Anzio in wikipedia is supplemented, for a contemporary sense of the city, by Anzio's official website.
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19: The play's the thing: some performances & their history
In the essay, The Metamorphoses of Coriolanus (p.27), Ralph Berry examines the play's performance evolution after the Second World War. He includes his thoughts on Laurence Olivier's 1959 portrayal. The essay appears in Berry's book, Changing Styles in Shakespeare (1981). Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's plays that has been banned. The introduction in The Oxford Shakespeare: Coriolanus delves into the reasons why and which countries were involved. Retired English professor Balz Englert looks at the play's life in post-war Germany.
Book jacket for Changing Styles in Shakespeare by Ralph Berry, 1981.
John Ripley's Coriolanus on Stage in England & America, 1609-1994 includes sections that explore Coriolanus' portrayal by Sir Laurence Olivier, Toby Stephens and many other actors.
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20: Coriolanus (1984) - BBC production, starring Alan Howard, DVD cover
Several reviews and Alan Howard's thoughts on Coriolanus can be found on his website. Coriolanus in performance is an especially interesting point of comparison to the new film.
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21: Story, Story, Story - the origin's of Bill's idea
R. B. Parker writes about Plutarch's Parallel Lives, the main source for Coriolanus in his introduction to the Oxford edition. The University of Chicago hosts the full text online: Plutarch's The Life of Coriolanus (The Loeb Classical Library edition, 1916). Caius Martius Coriolanus and his legend's truth is assessed by Dutch historian Jona Lendering on Livius.
Actor Toby Stephens talks about playing the general in the 1994 Royal Shakespeare Company's Coriolanus and how Coriolanus got his title. In the second part, Stephens describes why Coriolanus finds it so hard to ask for the people's support in his bid to become consul (includes an extended clip from the production). Production stills, with some other clips and posters from the same production (RSC 1994) starring Toby Stephens.
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22: Coriolanus (1994) - Toby Stephens in RSC production
Toby Stephens as Coriolanus (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994), photo courtesy Obscure British Actor Squee Consortium Society,
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23: Tragedy, in Shakespeare's terms
Coriolanus is tragically "psychopathic in his courage," Ralph Fiennes tells Rachel Brown on ABC. Time well spent with Ian McKellen in conversation about Shakespeare, tragedy and the meaning of the first speech in Richard III. Brian Cox performs in a scene from Titus Andronicus in the BBC Acting Series. In his book, William Shakespeare, William Baker explores the characteristics of Shakespeare's tragedies, using Coriolanus as an example.
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24: Coriolanus (1994) - Royal Shakespeare Company poster
Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Coriolanus (1994), "Natural Born Killer," starring Toby Stephens.
In Studying Shakespeare, A Guide to the Plays, Laurie Maguire investigates nature & nurture in this production. The story of how this image of a blood-soaked Toby Stephens literally helped ticket sales is told in Shakespeare in the Media: from the Globe Theatre to the World Wide Web.
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25: Pan?evo, Serbia (film location) - Ralph Fiennes' blog & NYT review, with poster
Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler in Coriolanus.
Ralph Fiennes Blog where he explains why he chose Serbia. In The New York Times Rosyln Sulcas explains that Serbia had "perfect anonymous war-torn urban landscape[s]." Co-producer Gabrielle Tana adds, "Many soldiers in the film were Serbian special forces, and what it did for production values and the sense of authenticity was extraordinary.”
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26: Belgrade (film location) - poster & NPR interview & review
NPR's David Edelstein explores Coriolanus (2011), in text and audio, A People's Hero turns on his Own. Weekend All Things Considered host, Guy Raz, explores the play's background, bannings, in a feature interview with Ralph Fiennes, with clips from the film. In the introduction to the Oxford edition, R.B. Parker details why the play was banned and where.
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27: National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (film location) - Brian Cox interview with The Telegraph
National Assembly of Serbia, public domain.
Brian Cox as Menenius in Coriolanus (2011).
In Coriolanus (2011) the location for the Roman Senate was Serbia's National Assembly. To tour the building virtually and get a glimpse of current politics in Serbia, here's the official website of the National Assembly.
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28: Coriolanus (2011): photos and two clips
Forty-eight photographs and two clips from Ralph Fiennes' film can be found on Filmofilia.
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29: Montenegro (film location) - The Observer, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, & CNN reviews
CNN's take on Coriolanus (2011).The Observer's Philip French unearths contemporary political resonances including one all the way to South Africa's apartheid regime. In The New Yorker, Anthony Lane in Loyalty Oaths asks was Ralph Fiennes "concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play?" Peter Travers in Rolling Stone, compares the film to The Hurt Locker.
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30: Coriolanus, the play, and its politics
On Slate, David Haglund explores T.S. Elliot's claim that Coriolanus was actually Shakespeare's greatest tragedy with links to Elliot's essay and Slate's review. Patrick Murray's analysis of the ideas and political relevance of Coriolanus: A Play for Our Time. Robert Luongo draws provocative connections between Shakespeare's plays (including Coriolanus) and contemporary politics in his book, The Power Template: Shakespeare's Political Plays.
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31: Coriolanus (2011) - Fall down, Volumnia & Virgilia poster
Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia, Coriolanus' mother, & Jessica Chastain as Virgilia, his wife, in Coriolanus (2011).
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32: A place calling itself Rome - Roger Ebert's review
"Who is to say that 'Coriolanus' might not as well be set in the Middle East as in Rome," Roger Ebert writes. "Neither a place Shakespeare had ever seen?" Noting Fiennes starred in the work onstage a decade ago, "he has deeper feelings for it...key scenes are those between Coriolanus and his mother, to whom he seems more romantically attached than to his wife, Virgilia."
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33: Coriolanus (1984) - RSC starring Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen as Coriolanus in RSC production at the National Theatre, poster.
"That is the day I first felt mortality as an actor - not that I gave into it." Ian McKellen writes about his experience playing Coriolanus.
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34: Coriolanus (1963) - Ian McKellen as Tullus Aufidius
Production still, Ian McKellen as Tullus Aufidius, courtesy mckellen.com
Some twenty years before he played the title role, Ian McKellen appeared in a production directed by Tyrone Guthrie at the Nottingham Playhouse. He shares his feelings about that experience.
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35: More politics
Coriolanus is "executed for crimes against his own humankindness," Claire McEachern writes in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. "Coriolanus was not the stuff of legend because little known soldiers never are," James Bulman writes in The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy. In Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics, Andrew Hadfield analyses and compares Titus Andronicus with Coriolanus.
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36: Coriolanus (1965) - Bertolt Brecht's unfinished adaptation
Ken Brigg's poster for Bertolt Brecht's Coriolanus (1965), courtesy the CreativeReview.co.uk
Brecht's unfinished adaptation was revised by Manfred Wekworth and Joachim Tenshert, his collaborators at the Berliner Ensemble. They put a lot of the original back in. In 1971, they made more revisions, and the lead role was played by Anthony Hopkins, his first leading Shakepearean role.
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37: Coriolanus (2011) - confrontation poster
Ralph Fiennes & Gerard Butler in Coriolanus (2011), German poster
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38: Video interviews: TIFF, London Film Festival & HitFix
Ralph Fiennes leading the Volscians in Coriolanus (2011).
Ralph Fiennes talks Coriolanus' relevance and homo eroticism in TIFF's Red Carpet Diary. Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox & John Logan (screenplay writer) talk about the language of Shakespeare at the London Film Festival. HitFix's Gregory Ellwood does a feature interview with Ralph Fiennes.
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39: Coriolanus (1994) - Royal Shakespeare Company poster
Poster for Royal Shakespeare Company's 1994 Coriolanus, starring Toby Stephens as Coriolanus.
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40: More versions of Shakespeare's tragedies
Patrick Stewart as Macbeth in PBS production (2009), poster, copyright PBS.
The complete BBC 1984 production of Coriolanus, starring Alan Howard is on YouTube. The Internet Shakespeare Editions has a description of the 1951 Coriolanus film, starring Richard Greene. Here's an action-packed preview of a high school production of Coriolanus. Christopher Plummer dishes the dirt on backroom dealings about Coriolanus productions and versions.
Soliloquies of Macbeth by Sir Ian McKellen in Macbeth (1979) and in King Lear (2008). An excerpt with Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth (2009) on stage and on screen - the full play can be seen on PBS Video. Anthony Hopkins as Titus Andronicus in Titus (1999), and here's Orsen Welles in Othello (1952).
Othello (1995) poster starring Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh.
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41: Coriolanus (2012) - Strathclyde Theatre poster
Coriolanus poster for Strathcylde Theatre Group performances during the summer of 2012.
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42: TV Interviews: BBC, CBS & Slamscreen.com reviews & interviews
Ralph Fiennes interviewed on CBS This Morning by Charlie Rose, Gayle King, & Erica Hill. Coriolanus (2011) reviewed on BBC's Film 2012, with interviews with Fiennes, Redgrave & Butler. On Slamscreen.com, Gerard Butler talks about his experience playing Aufidius and working with Fiennes.
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43: Hamlet (1948), starring Laurence Olivier - poster
Poster from Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948).
Olivier's Hamlet won Best Picture and Best Actor (for him), and many other awards. For many years the film was, and by many, continues to be the greatest performance of Hamlet on film. The complete film (with Spanish subtitles) is on YouTube. In 1966, Olivier did a feature interview with Kenneth Tynan at the Old Vic.
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44: And, more versions of Shakespeare's tragedies
Akira Kurosawa's Ran, is partly based on King Lear (1985) and partly on Japanese legend. Kenneth Branagh directs and plays the lead in Hamlet (1996). Laurence Olivier's To Be or Not To Be soliloquy. Othello (1995) with Laurence Fishburne as Othello and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton in Cleopatra (1963). An excerpt from Julius Caesar (1953), with Marlon Brandon as Mark Anthony. Franco Zefferelli's trailer for Romeo and Juliet (1968).
Marlon Brandon as Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar (1953), copyright MGM.
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45: Coriolanus (1990) - newspaper ad for RSC production
Newspaper ad for Charles Dance starring in Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford-Upon-Avon and Newcastle (1989), and the Barbican Theatre in London (1990).
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46: Some places to look for more....
This map is a sketch, a beginning. Here are some other sources and places you may want to look for more.
Coriolanus, A Guide to the Play by Mary Steible (2004) considers the idea of compromise and flexibility and people's responsibilities to each other.
William Shakespeare's wiki is thoroughly referenced, with multiple external links to his work and spirit online.
For the latest research, information about performances, films, and manifestations of Bill and his work on and offline, on Twitter you can follow: @openshakespeare, @Shakespearelogs, @bardfilm, @folgerlibrary, @The_Globe, @TheRSC, @TheShakesForum, @shakesstandard, @sonnets, @playshakespeare.
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