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  • Cover artwork for Coriolanus in the Fifth Folio edition featuring the ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome.
  • A scene from Coriolanus in which Volumnia, Valeria, and Virgilia await news from the Roman campaign, paired with a sculpture by Lorenzo Bartolini whose calm expression and flowing drapery lend the scene a sense of civic dignity and restrained maternal unease.
  • A passage from *Coriolanus* in which Volumnia imagines her son displaying his battle scars before the Roman people, layered between a marble Roman portrait and a flayed anatomical figure. The confrontation between idealized civic form and exposed musculature turns the speech into a meditation on glory, bodily sacrifice, and the public display of violence.
  • A passage from *Coriolanus* in which Volumnia describes the terrible momentum of her son’s martial spirit, layered over a monumental Florentine guardian figure beside an eagle and sword. The pale stone surfaces and heraldic posture transform the speech into an image of civic power shadowed by grief, where triumph and devastation become inseparable.
  • Brutus and Sicinius plot against Coriolanus, turning public resentment into political theater. Framed between crimson-lit Roman busts, the scene suggests a republic ruled increasingly by spectacle, humiliation, and ambition rather than honor alone.
  • A scene from *Coriolanus* in which Menenius attempts to reconcile the Roman senators with the embattled Martius, layered over a portrait of Thomas Jefferson from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and a suspended Greek helmet set against weathered Roman stone. The juxtaposition blends republican rhetoric, classical militarism, and political fragility into a single uneasy civic tableau.
  • A passage from *Coriolanus* in which Aufidius and Martius reconcile and embrace, layered over a fragmentary tapestry figure set against the stone terraces of the Colosseum. The worn textile surface and weathered masonry lend the scene the feeling of an ancient martial memory briefly restored to life.
  • A passage from *Coriolanus* in which Volumnia pleads against war and division, layered over a sculpture by Edmonia Lewis at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, with the museum’s flag and pole superimposed across the scene. The bright red, white, and blue elements introduce a modern civic symbolism that echoes the play’s tensions between patriotism, family loyalty, and public duty.
  • A passage from *Coriolanus* in which Martius recalls his mother’s teachings on courage and endurance, layered over a photograph at the Lido shoreline as a solitary figure walks toward the sea. Faint biplanes suspended overhead suggest distant aerial conflict, introducing a modern image of peril and inheritance into the play’s meditation on valor, injury, and maternal expectation.
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Coriolanus

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Cover artwork for Coriolanus in the Fifth Folio edition featuring the ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome.

þe Tragedie of CORIOLANUS.





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