Date:1603
Description:Theseus is first in North's study of the Greeks as read by Shakespeare. The first story in North’s translation of Plutarch is of the Greek king Theseus whose marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, Shakespeare introduced to the plot of both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Two Noble Kinsmen. Full title: Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines compared together Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot... and out of French into English by Sir Thomas North, Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Thomas Wight, 1603.
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