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What is the city but the people?

In the play, Coriolanus, William Shakespeare explores what constitutes the city. Though the action primarily takes place in Rome, the contested nature of the city and questions about the agency shaping it is universally relevant. More than the material of the built environment - of buildings and streets - it includes the life of the people that inhabit it.

  • Sicinius: What is the city but the people?

    Plebeians: True, The people are the city.

    (Coriolanus Act 3 Scene 1)

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