V. 2. 12. The short speeches throughout this scene are printed as verse first by Steevens (1793). This arrangement has been generally adopted by later editors. From the manner in which the short lines are arranged in the earlier editions it is impossible to say whether they were intended to be read as verse or not. An alteration made by Pope in line 40 for the sake of the metre shows that he read some of the lines at least as verse.
V. 3. III. The Folio here inserts the following lines:
_Troy._ Hence brother lackie; ignomie and shame Pursue thy life, and liue aye with thy name.'
As they occur again, with a slight variation in the first line, in the last scene, we have followed the Quarto in omitting them. This is an indication that the play has been tampered with by another hand than Shakespeare's.
V. 7. 6. Mr Collier quotes the Duke of Devonshire's copy of the Quarto as authority for the reading 'aims,' 'the letter i being a little indistinct.' This is a mistake. The indistinct letter is, beyond all question, an imperfect r. Capell's copy and the two copies in the British Museum all have 'armes.' In the same note Mr Collier quotes the Folio as reading 'arm,' not 'arme,' and attributes Capell's correction to Steevens.
V. 10. 31. Here Capell inserts the passage '_Pan._ Do you hear ... deeds,' V. 3. 97-111, and after Troilus's speech, 'What now?' gives the stage direction 'Exeunt Æneas, and Trojans.'
CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS. TITUS LARTIUS, } generals against the Volscians. COMINIUS, } MENENIUS AGRIPPA, friend to Coriolanus. SICINIUS VELUTUS, } tribunes of the people. JUNIUS BRUTUS, } YOUNG MARCIUS, son to Coriolanus. A Roman Herald. TULLUS AUFIDIUS, general of the Volscians. Lieutenant to Aufidius. Conspirators with Aufidius. A Citizen of Antium. Two Volscian Guards.
VOLUMNIA, mother to Coriolanus. VIRGILIA, wife to Coriolanus. VALERIA, friend to Virgilia. Gentlewoman attending on Virgilia.
Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ædiles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.
SCENE: _Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood; Antium_[G].
[G] Rome....] Edd. The Scene is partly in Rome and partly in the Territory of the Volscians. Rowe. The Scene.... Territories of the Volscians and Antiates. Theobald.