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The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody.

As far as we know, this playbill (inset below), with its date of March 14 1789, is the last time Shakespeare’s Coriolanus was performed before the French Revolution. It was to be three years ...