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[[File:Coriolanus and Aufidius (Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 4, Scene 5) MET DP870106.jpg|thumb|400px|Coriolanus and Aufidius (Act 4, Scene 5)]]
'''''Coriolanus''''' is one of Shakespeare's lesser-known (but extremely well thought-of by critics) plays, with such political overtones that it remains the only Shakespeare play [[Banned in China|banned by a modern democracy]] (France in the 1930s).
Caius Martius is a Roman general; brilliant but arrogant and contemptuous of the ordinary folk. When we meet him at the start of the play, there are food riots going on in Rome and Caius Martius is being blamed for taking the grain supplies for the army. While others try and calm the situation, Marcus simply retorts that the commoners aren't worthy of having the grain as they have not done military service.
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* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Volumnia may not be exactly evil, but she is certainly extremely cunning and manipulative.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Canon, and in spades.
** ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19245_the-6-most-wtf-moments-from-shakespeare-plays_p2.html
** In the 2011 adaptation, the way that Aufidius looks at Martius--especially when he's {{spoiler|cradling his dead body in his arms}}--screams this trope at the top of its metaphorical lungs.
* [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: Coriolanus' total contempt for the common people is clearly shown to be a serious fault, but he makes some good points (see [[Democracy Is Bad]] above) and the two men who claim to be "voices of the people" are described, as [[Ambition Is Evil|ambitious]] by [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Menenius]].
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