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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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