コリオレイナス — ウィリアム・シェイクスピア
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Coriolanus Author : William Shakespeare Release date : November 1, 1998 [eBook #1535] Most recently updated: September 19, 2025 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1535 Credits : the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers *** START OF Rome. A street Scene II. Corioles. The Senate House Scene III. Rome. An apartment in Martius’ house Scene IV. Before Corioles Scene V. Within Corioles. A street Scene VI. Near the camp of Cominius Scene VII. The gates of Corioles Scene VIII. A field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps Scene IX. The Roman camp Scene X. The camp of the Volsces ACT II Scene I. Rome. A public place Scene II. Rome. The Capitol Scene III. Rome. The Forum ACT III Scene I. Rome. A street Scene II. Rome. A room in Coriolanus’s house Scene III. Rome. The Forum ACT IV Scene I. Rome. Before a gate of the city Scene II. Rome. A street near the gate Scene III. A highway between Rome and Antium Scene IV. Antium. Before Aufidius’s house Scene V. Antium. A hall in Aufidius’s house Scene VI. Rome. A public place Scene VII. A camp at a short distance from Rome ACT V Scene I. Rome. A public place Scene II. An Advanced post of the Volscian camp before Rome. Scene III. The tent of Coriolanus Scene IV. Rome. A public place Scene V. Rome. A street near the gate Scene VI. Antium. A public place Dramatis Personæ CAIUS MARTIUS CORIOLANUS, a noble Roman VOLUMNIA, his mother VIRGILIA, his wife YOUNG MARTIUS, their son VALERIA, friend to Volumnia and Virgilia A GENTLEWOMAN, Volumnia’s attendant MENENIUS AGRIPPA, Friend to Coriolanus COMINIUS, General against the Volscians TITUS LARTIUS, General against the Volscians SICINIUS VELUTUS, Tribune of the People JUNIUS BRUTUS, Tribune of the People A ROMAN HERALD TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians LIEUTENANT, to Aufidius Conspirators with Aufidius A CITIZEN of Antium TWO VOLSCIAN GUARDS Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Aediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants SCENE: Partly in Rome, and partly in the territories of the Volscians and Antiates. ACT I SCENE I. Rome. A street Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. ALL. Speak, speak! FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? ALL. Resolved, resolved! FIRST CITIZEN. First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the people. ALL. We know’t, we know’t! FIRST CITIZEN. Let us kill him, and we’ll have corn at our own price. Is’t a verdict? ALL. No more talking on’t; let it be done. Away, away! SECOND CITIZEN. One word, good citizens. FIRST CITIZEN. We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. What authority surfeits on would relieve us. If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely. But they think we are too dear. The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pikes ere we become rakes; for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. SECOND CITIZEN. Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius? FIRST CITIZEN. Against him first. He’s a very dog to the commonalty. SECOND CITIZEN. Consider you what services he has done for his country? FIRST CITIZEN. Very well, and could be content to give him good report for’t, but that he pays himself with being proud. SECOND CITIZEN. Nay, but speak not maliciously. FIRST CITIZEN. I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it to that end. Though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue. SECOND CITIZEN. What he cannot help in his nature you account a vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous. FIRST CITIZEN. If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations. He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. [ Shouts within .] What shouts are these? The other side o’ th’ city is risen. Why stay we prating here? To th’ Capitol! ALL. Come, come! Enter Menenius Agrippa . FIRST CITIZEN. Soft, who comes here? SECOND CITIZEN. Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath always loved the people. FIRST CITIZEN. He’s one honest enough. Would all the rest were so! MENENIUS. What work’s, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. FIRST CITIZEN. Our business is not unknown to th’ Senate. They have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, which now we’ll show ’em in deeds. They say poor suitors have strong breaths; they shall know we have strong arms too. MENENIUS. Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours, Will you undo yourselves? FIRST CITIZEN. We cannot, sir; we are undone already. MENENIUS. I tell you, friends, most charitable care Have the patricians of you. For your wants, Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them Against the Roman state, whose course will on The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs Of more strong link asunder than can ever Appear in your impediment. For the dearth, The gods, not the patricians, make it, and Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack, You are transported by calamity Thither where more attends you, and you slander The helms o’ th’ state, who care for you like fathers, When you curse them as enemies. FIRST CITIZEN. Care for us? True, indeed! They ne’er cared for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their sto