Muscles do not a character make (though, of course, masculine ideals mean many men do make this mistake), finds Lucy Kenningham Rome. The beginning of an empire. The plebs are in a bad way: they ...

As far as we know, this playbill (inset below), with its date of March 14 1789, is the last time Shakespeare’s Coriolanus was performed before the French Revolution. It was to be three years ...