Aufidius has some pretty strong language in this scene, fairly Iago/Richard-esque in its intensity and purpose. I don’t think we ever do anything with it, though, i.e., Aufidius never becomes a plot engine the way the other two do.
Wouldn’t that have been an interesting play?
I’d like to suggest cutting a lot of Aufidius’s speech about how he’s going to get Coriolanus, honorably or not. That particular plot line goes nowhere; he never gains that kind of stature within the plot.
Aufidius has some pretty strong language in this scene, fairly Iago/Richard-esque in its intensity and purpose. I don’t think we ever do anything with it, though, i.e., Aufidius never becomes a plot engine the way the other two do.
Wouldn’t that have been an interesting play?
I’d like to suggest cutting a lot of Aufidius’s speech about how he’s going to get Coriolanus, honorably or not. That particular plot line goes nowhere; he never gains that kind of stature within the plot.