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Faced with exile, the historical Caius Martius Coriolanus found that even his own formidable voice was no match for that of the crowd that in Plutarch's account "cried out so lowde, and made suche a noyse, that he could not be heard." Similarly, in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the vox populi is no mere metaphor. Pointing out that the word "voices" appears more frequently in Coriolanus than in any other work of Shakespeare, Peter Holland remarks, "There is a powerful sound of sounds, a speaking of speech across the play," and indeed, the voices in Shakespeare's play have provoked voluminous discussion. As an expression of frustration, disillusionment, or sheer realism, the line could easily become a motto for modern political cynicism. To modern readers, the line might also express a lowercase-c cynicism about the power of theater and imaginative representation more generally to change the way we think and act in the world.