Bardolph (Shakespeare character) I", the 1598 quarto, he is called "Rossill" (an archaic spelling of the name Russell) and is at one point specified as "sir Iohn Russel". This is generally taken to mean that he originally had that name in the first performances of the play, just as Falstaff too had originally been given another name: Sir John Oldcastle. Shakespeare may have changed the name when he was forced to change Oldcastle to Falstaff after complaints from the Oldcastle family. It is possible he decided to remove any suggestion that he was ridiculing the Russell family (which included William Russell, 1st Baron
BBC Television Shakespeare Aufidius in front of a large crowd who urge Aufidius to kill him. However, in shooting the scene, Moshinsky changed it so that it takes place in front of a few silent senators, and there is no real fight as such. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "The Tragedy of Coriolanus" was presented by Ian Hogg who had played Coriolanus in a 1972 RSC production directed by Trevor Nunn. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by General Sir John Hackett. Cast For this production, director David Giles chose to go with a semi-stylised setting, which he referred to as