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The main character in Coriolanus, which is on at the National Theatre in London, is what we would nowadays call a fascist. He respects very little in the field of human endeavour outside of military service. He begrudges the plebeians their grain.
At the end of the evening, though, it isn’t clear that Shakespeare disowns him. Never the most loved or the most lyrical of his plays,…
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