Virgilia

And to this humble writer's way of reading poetry there were never four lines for pure poetry more beautifully writ, neither across the seas, nor here at home, neither east nor west, than these four from "Virgilia":

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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.

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She also plays Virgilia in a film of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" made by another actor-turned-director, Ralph Fiennes.

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Coriolanus – Plays wife Virgilia in film version of Shakespeare's tragedy.

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Volumnia, Virgilia, Valeria, & c. passing over the stage, followed by Patricians and others

The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

Enter Volumnia and Virgilia they set them down on two low stools, and sew

The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

When the deputy head of FRELIMO's parliamentary group, Virgilia

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Rosalind, Helena, and last, and perhaps loveliest, Virgilia, are all faultless: conceived in the highest heroic type of humanity.

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By blood he's just about as close to Virgil Samms as Virgilia is.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Virgilia was actually there with him; inside his own mind; in closer touch with him than she had ever before been.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950