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Coriolanus

What are your offices,you being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?

What are your offices,
you being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?

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What are your offices, you being their mouths,
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why rule you not their teeth?
Duration
7 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:58
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.
It is a purposed thing and it grows by plot - Coriolanus 00:07
It is a purposed thing and it grows by plot
Suffer it and live with such as cannot rule - Coriolanus 00:05
Suffer it and live with such as cannot rule
And of late, when corn was given them gratis, - Coriolanus 00:12
And of late, when corn was given them gratis,
By yon clouds, let me deserve so ill as you - Coriolanus 00:07
By yon clouds, let me deserve so ill as you
You show too much of that for which the people stir. - Coriolanus 00:05
You show too much of that for which the people stir.
If you will pass to where you are bound, - Coriolanus 00:13
If you will pass to where you are bound,
Let's be calm. - The people are abused, - Coriolanus 00:10
Let's be calm. - The people are abused,
Tell me of corn, this was my speech - Coriolanus 00:06
Tell me of corn, this was my speech
Not now, not now. - Not in this heat, sir, now - Coriolanus 00:28
Not now, not now. - Not in this heat, sir, now
The honored number who lack not virtue, no, - Coriolanus 00:09
The honored number who lack not virtue, no,
Well, no more. - No more words, - Coriolanus 00:05
Well, no more. - No more words,
As for my country, I have shed my blood, - Coriolanus 00:16
As for my country, I have shed my blood,
You speak o' the people as if you were a God - Coriolanus 00:07
You speak o' the people as if you were a God
Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, - Coriolanus 00:06
Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
It is a mind that shall remain a poison where it is, - Coriolanus 00:07
It is a mind that shall remain a poison where it is,
Hear you this, Shaitan of the minnows, - Coriolanus 00:07
Hear you this, Shaitan of the minnows,
Oh good, but most unwise patricians. - Coriolanus 00:05
Oh good, but most unwise patricians.
You are plebeians if they be senators. - Coriolanus 00:05
You are plebeians if they be senators.
Shall, by Jove himself, it makes the consuls base - Coriolanus 00:15
Shall, by Jove himself, it makes the consuls base
Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth the corn - Coriolanus 00:06
Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth the corn