Dramatis Personae

• Caius Marcius, afterwards Caius Marcius Coriolanus

• Titus Lartius, general against the Volscians

• Cominius, general against the Volscians

• Menenius Agrippa, friend to Coriolanus

• Sicinius Velutus, tribune of the people

• Junius Brutus, tribune of the people

• Young Marcius, son to Coriolanus

• A Roman herald

• Tullus Aufidius, general of the Volscians

• Lieutenant to Aufidius

• Conspirators with Aufidius

• A citizen of Antium

• Volumnia, mother to Coriolanus

• Virgilia, wife to Coriolanus

• Valeria, friend to Virgilia

• Gentlewoman, attending on Virgilia

• Roman and Volscian senators, patricians, aediles, lictors, soldiers, citizens, messengers, servants to Aufidius, and other attendants

Scene: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium.