Date:1603
Description:The story of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's source. The central facts for the play of Coriolanus were taken by from North’s translation of Plutarch's Lives. The fable of the belly and its rebellion (1,1, lines 94-152) was found here and used when Shakespeare wrote the play about 1608, soon after he completed Antony and Cleopatra. 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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Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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