Except that people are much witter and much better spoken.
Anyone who thinks trickle-down economics is new needs to read the opening act of Coriolanus. Seriously.
I tell you, friends, most charitable care
Have the patricians of you. For your wants,
Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well
Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
Against the Roman state, whose course will on
The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
Of more strong link asunder than can ever
Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,
The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,
You are transported by calamity
Thither where more attends you, and you slander
The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,
When you curse them as enemies.
Then the parable about how you have to feed the belly before the belly can feed the body....
It'll be interesting doing this during this particular election year. Wonder if that's why they chose it?
Just about everyone talks a lot about how proud Martius (aka Coriolanus) is. Not judging. Not judging. It's against the code to judge. He does like his single-handed battles, though.
Finding a lot interesting in Coriolanus's wife, too, especially in contrast to his mother. There's something deep going on there. But I think that will have to wait for thoughts on Act II or later.
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