Part 3 features close-readings of four key speeches and scenes that set out the play’s central dilemma, as they speak for a cooperative political community and the elite warrior ideal that Coriolanus is meant to embody. Speeches and Performers: Menenius, citizens, and Martius, Act 1, “I shall tell you a pretty tale …” (David Collins) Volumnia and Virgilia, Act 1, “If my son were my husband…” (Joyce Branagh) Coriolanus, Act 3, “Well, I must do ‘t…” (Keith Hamilton Cobb) Cominius and Menenius, Act 4, “He is their god …” (David Collins)