play is basically about the birth of democracy." In 2011, Ralph Fiennes directed and starred as Coriolanus with Gerard Butler as Aufidius and Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia in a modern-day film adaptation Coriolanus. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in May, 2012. It has a 93% rating on the film review site Rottentomatoes.com, giving it a Certified Fresh award. Slavoj Žižek argued that unlike preceding adaptations, Fiennes' film portrayed Coriolanus without trying to rationalize his behaviour, as a raw figure for the "radical left", a figure who represents contempt for a decadent liberal democracy and the willingness to use violence to counter its latent imperialism in alliance with the oppressed, someone he compares to Che Guevara (who justified himself as a revolutionary killing machine). Parody While the title character's name's pronunciation in classical Latin has the a pronounced "[aː]" in the IPA, in English the a is usually pronounced "[eɪ]." Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo contains a joke dependent upon this pronunciation, and the parody The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) refers to it as "the anus play". Shakespeare pronunciation guides list both pronunciations as acceptable. Cole Porter's song "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from the musical Kiss Me, Kate includes the lines: "If she says your behavior is heinous,/Kick her right in the Coriolanus." Based on Coriolanus, and written in blank verse, "Complots of Mischief" is a satirical critique of those who dismiss conspiracy theories. Written by philosopher Charles Pigden, it was published in Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (Ashgate 2006). References Further reading Krajewski, Bruce. "Coriolanus: 'Unfit for Anyone's Conversation,'" in Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric (1992), . External links Text of the play by Shakespeare: Full text of Shakespeare's play Old Spelling Transcription – Transcription of First Folio. Coriolanus at Project Gutenberg. Coriolanus at the British Library Coriolanus – Scene-indexed and searchable version of the play. Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus : Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus – 17th century English translation by John Dryden Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus – 19th century English translation by Aubrey Stewart and George Long 1608 plays English Renaissance plays Plays set in ancient Rome Shakespearean tragedies British plays adapted into films Adaptations of works by Plutarch Plays set in the 5th century BC