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THE

DRAMATIC WORKS

OF

SHAKSPEARE.

VOLUME THE FIFTH,

CONTAINING

CORIOLANUS.

JULIUS CÆSAR.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

TIMON OF ATHENS.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

CORIOLANUS.

VOL. V.

B

PERSONS PERSONS REPRESENTED.

CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS, a noble Roman.

TITUS LARTIUS, Generals against the Volfcians.

COMINIUS,

MENENIUS AGRIPPA, Friend to CORIOLANUS.

SICINIUS VELUTUS, }T Tribunes of the People.

JUNIUS BRUTUS,

TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians.
Lieutenant to AUFIDIUS.

Young MARCIUS, Son to CORIOLANUS.
Conspirators with AUFIDIUS.

VOLUMNIA, Mother to CORIOLANUS.
VIRGILIA, Wife to CORIOLANUS.
VALERIA, Friend to VIRGILIA.

Roman and Volscian Senators, Ædiles, Lictors, Soldiers, Common People, Servants to AUFIDIUS, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is partly in Rome, and partly in the Territories of the Volfcians and Antiates.

THIS PLAY was probably written about the year 1609; the story is taken from Sir T. NORTH's tranflation of PLUTARCH'S LIVES, whence also many of the speeches are exactly copied.

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