By Lucy Kenningham Muscles do not a character make (though, of course, masculine ideals mean many men do make this mistake), finds Lucy Kenningham Rome. The beginning of an empire. The plebs are in a bad way: they are starving. Unrest is brewing. The Consul of Rome becomes entrapped in his role, unpopular because he refuses to play the game of politics. Welcome to the epic world of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: the story of a Roman soldier catapulted into the political realm, where his military might and strong-minded morals are almost a moot point. Our protagonist is one Caius Marcius (David Oyel…