The Daily Poem Podcast
The Daily Poem
Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus
0:00
-5:30

Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus

Volumnia pleading with Coriolanus not to destroy Rome, Richard Westfall, 1800

What do the world’s greatest playwright and Rome’s greatest mama’s boy have in common? Today’s poem–Volumnia pleading with her son in the final Act of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

Discussion about this episode

User's avatar