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* [[Ancient Rome]]: Coriolanus may be a Roman legend (or semi-legend), but the characters that Shakespeare calls [[w:Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (consul 503 BC)|Menenius Agrippa]], [[w:Postumus Cominius Auruncus|Cominius]], [[w:Titus Lartius|Titus Lartius]], [[w:Lucius Sicinius Vellutus|Sicinius Vellutus]], [[w:Tiberius Junius Brutus|Junius Brutus]] and [[w:Attius Tullius|Tullus Aufidius]] were all real people in Roman history. They aren't all called by the correct names, but we know their identities, just the same.
* [[Banned in China|Banned in France]]: In the 1930's, Coriolanus's military elitism and contempt for democracy resonated with French fascists, to the point the beleaguered French government outright banned performances of it.
* [[Canis Latinicus]]: In the 2011 film, there's a scene where Caius Martius (the eponymous Coriolanus) is telling his troops, "Make you a sword of me." In the background is grafitti reading,"Non illegitimi carborundum"--Dog Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Shakespeare based much of the play on the works of [[Plutarch]], who reported the story of Coriolanus as the biography of a real person. Recent scholars, however, believe that Coriolanus was
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