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Coriolanus | Act IV Summary
Scene i: In front of Rome's gates, Coriolanus exchanges farewells with his mother, wife, and child, Volumnia cursing the common people and their tribunes.
Scene ii: On a street near the same gate, Sicinius and Brutus encounter Volumnia and the other members of Coriolanus's family. The matriarch says that she wished the gods had nothing other to do than to inflict her curses upon them.
Scene iii: This scene takes place on a highway between Rome and Antium, the home city of Aufidius, as an exchange between two unnamed...
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