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First, the famous allegory of Menenius: [10] _Menenius: _
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913
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The quietly reasonable senator Menenius (Brian Cox) urges restraint, but his close friend the military leader Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes) gives the crowd a tongue-lashing, and the police, their wall of shields resembling a Roman testudo, drive the mob away.
Coriolanus – review 2012
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The cast includes Vanessa Redgrave as the hero's mother, Volumnia, alongside whom today's tiger moms seem toothless; Jessica Chastain as his ardent wife, Virgilia; Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius, his mortal enemy, and Brian Cox as the accommodating senator Menenius.
Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller Joe Morgenstern 2012
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Menenius Agrippa, their chief spokesman, after much entreaty to the people, and much plain-speaking on behalf of the senate, concluded, at length, with the celebrated fable.
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The most interesting of the other characters are Aufidius, the Volscian general, Menenius, Coriolanus 'friend in Rome, and Volumnia, his mother.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah nickbarnes 2009
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Menenius disarms them with some choice rhetoric, before Coriolanus stokes them up again with his eloquent insults.
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Vanessa Redgrave plays his mother, Brian Cox plays senator Menenius with Jessica Chastain playing his wife, and other roles feature James Nesbitt and even news reporter Jon Snow and singer/actor Will Young who gets a small role.
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Menenius to Brutus and Sicinius; he is annoyed that they have been speaking poorly of Marcius later Coriolanus.
Shakespeare's Insult 22 August 2006 glenn_hauman 2006
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The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than thy old father Menenius does!
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Menenius, always factionary on the party of your general.
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