Professor Little briefly mentioned some key facts in class about Coriolanus and I think they may show up as IDs.
Around 509 B.C., The Etruscans were in charge of Rome. At that time, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was in power and his son Sextus Tarquinius (Tarquin) raped the Roman noblewoman Lucrece. She told her brother, Lucius Junius Brutus, who raped her and she killed herself. They put her body in display and talked about how she was raped. The Romans, led by Brutus, rose up against the tyrants and founded the Roman Republic. Coriolanus was one of the heroes that overthrew the tyrants. The Play also focuses on the forgotten story of Lucrece but Shakespeare brings it back.
Irvin Liu
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