Coriolanus.
Interestingly and well done.
A splendid soldier of Rome, Caius Martius defeats the Volsci at Corioles and earns the title Coriolanus.
His friends seek to make him Consul and the senate is all agog, but he loathes the plebs who claim "the people are the city", and they know it. Sent by his mother and the city's leaders to gain their suffrage he is easily provoked into revealing his burning hatred and scorn for them all. He is banished by them from the city.
Consumed with even greater loathing and proving the plebs right, out of hate he goes over to the Volsci and offers to lead them on to crush Rome. Their leader Aufidius accepts. He leads the Volsci toward Rome.
Rome panics and sends his erstwhile friends to persuade him to stop, but he won't. His mother, wife, and son come to beg and he refuses. His mother, furious, rages at him for his betrayal of his city, his friends, and of everyone who loves him. He relents and agrees to make peace between Rome and the Volsci.
At a ceremony in Rome, the Roman consul signs the peace deal for Rome and Cauis Martius, the traitor, the enemy of his homeland and his own family, signs for the Volsci.
But Aufidius is enraged at his betrayal of him and his city when faced by the tears of his mother, wife, and child and, when he returns to the Volsci from Rome, denies him even his title "Coriolanus", awarded, after all, by Rome for his earlier defeat of himself and his people.
Caius now vents his rage and contempt at Aufidius, his soldiers, and his state and is killed for it. His hatred has at last killed him.
The play is not about politics, intrinsically, but about hate.
It is about politics only extrinsically, so far as politics is how the principals, and chiefly Caius Martius, live out their hate.
So far as politics is made to be about hate.
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