Date:1603
Description:Shakespeare’s source for stories of Greece and Rome. Shakespeare’s contemporary, the lawyer and scholar Sir Thomas North (?1535 - 1601) translated the biographies of fifty Greek and Roman nobles from Jacques Amyot's French version of the Greek work of Plutarch who lived for some time in Rome in the first century AD. This translation gave Shakespeare easy access to the history of all the Romans and Greeks who became the subjects of several tragedies from Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus to Julius Caesar and Timon of Athens. 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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