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For either thou must, like a foreign recreant
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Coriolanus

For either thou must,like a foreign recreant, be led with manaclesthorough our streets, or...

For either thou must,
like a foreign recreant, be led with manacles
thorough our streets, or else triumphantly tread
on thy country's ruin, and bear the palm for
having bravely shed thy wife and children's blood

Full Transcript

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For either thou must, like a foreign recreant,
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be led with manacles thorough our streets,
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or else triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,
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and bear the palm for having bravely shed
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thy wife and children's blood.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
02:05:46
Uploaded
Nov 03, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
Stratford Festival,Ontario Creates,Melbar Entertainment Group,CBC

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Movie Summary

Roman War hero Martius, alias Coriolanus, is named consul, Rome's highest public office. But the warrior is no politician - and he faces unaccustomed enemies who fan the flames of populism against him, with catastrophic results.
For myself, son, - Coriolanus 00:10
For myself, son,
If I cannot persuade thee rather to show a noble grace - Coriolanus 00:21
If I cannot persuade thee rather to show a noble grace
Aye, and mine, that brought you forth this boy, - Coriolanus 00:06
Aye, and mine, that brought you forth this boy,
If it were so that our request did tend to save the Romans, - Coriolanus 00:14
If it were so that our request did tend to save the Romans,
No, our suit is that you reconcile them. - Coriolanus 00:08
No, our suit is that you reconcile them.
While the Volsces may say, this mercy we have showed, - Coriolanus 00:15
While the Volsces may say, this mercy we have showed,
Thou knowest, great son, - Coriolanus 00:17
Thou knowest, great son,
Whose chronicle thus writ, the man was noble, - Coriolanus 00:13
Whose chronicle thus writ, the man was noble,
Thinkest thou it honorable for a noble man - Coriolanus 00:09
Thinkest thou it honorable for a noble man
Daughter, speak you, he cares not for your weeping. - Coriolanus 00:06
Daughter, speak you, he cares not for your weeping.
Speak thou, boy, perhaps thy childishness - Coriolanus 00:06
Speak thou, boy, perhaps thy childishness
There's no man in the world more bound to his mother, - Coriolanus 00:10
There's no man in the world more bound to his mother,
Thou hast never in thy life - Coriolanus 00:08
Thou hast never in thy life
When she, poor hen, has clucked thee to the wars - Coriolanus 00:09
When she, poor hen, has clucked thee to the wars
Say my request's unjust, and spurn me back, - Coriolanus 00:18
Say my request's unjust, and spurn me back,
He turns away, down ladies, let us shame him with our knees. - Coriolanus 00:07
He turns away, down ladies, let us shame him with our knees.
To his surname Coriolanus, - Coriolanus 00:10
To his surname Coriolanus,
This is the last! - Coriolanus 00:05
This is the last!
So, we will home to Rome, and die among our neighbors. - Coriolanus 00:08
So, we will home to Rome, and die among our neighbors.
Nay, beholds this boy that cannot tell what he would have - Coriolanus 00:08
Nay, beholds this boy that cannot tell what he would have