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  • A Monologue from the play "Coriolanus" by William Shakespeare
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CharacterVolumnia
GenderFemale
Age Range(s)Senior (>50)
Type of monologue / Character isDescriptive, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
TypeDramatic
PeriodRenaissance
GenreTragedy, Drama
DescriptionVolumnia praises her son
LocationACT I, Scene 3

Summary

The play is set in the city of Rome and is based on the legendary Roman general Gaius Martius Coriolanus. In the first scene of the play Caius Martius and several Roman rulers have to deal with a riot of the common people that are protesting because of a shortage of grain. A war soon breaks out between Rome and a neighboring tribe, the Volscians, led by Tullus Aufidius. Gaius Martius is sent to war as second-in-command, reporting to Cominius. In the third scene of ACT I, we find Volumnia, Gaius' mother, and Virgilia, his wife, sewing together. In this monologue Volumnia praises his son's talents as a soldier and urges Virginia to rejoice in her husband's opportunity to win honors in the war.

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Excerpt
VOLUMNIA
I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a
more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I
should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he
won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
he would show most love. When yet he was but
tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when
youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when
for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not
sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering
how honour would become such a person. that it was
no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if
renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek
danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel
war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows
bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not
more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
than now in first seeing he had proved himself a
man.

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