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Theater Review: CORIOLANUS (Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston)

When I think of Shakespeare’s women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona.

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Theater Review: CORIOLANUS (Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston)

By Lynne Weiss | April 2, 2023

When I think of Shakespeare’s women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona. Going forward, thanks to the powerful performance of Jennie Israel in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s modern verse translation by Sean San José of Coriolanus, I will always include Volumnia, the mother of Coriolanus, in that list.