Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - fore-edge title
An Elizabethan identification of a Shakespearian sourcebook.
An early owner of this volume stored his books in the same way as many of his contemporaries, with the fore-edge facing outwards, rather ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - Julius Caesar, p.712.
The story of Julius Caesar, as read by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s first knowledge of Latin and the Roman heroes had been acquired at school, and later for his play Julius Caesar he took the story ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - p.1, Theseus.
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 ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - title page.
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 ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1612 - Antony and Cleopatra, p. 922, detail.
Shakespeare followed this description of Cleopatra.
Shakespeare became very familiar with Plutarch’s stories, and he often followed the wording of sections in North’s translation very ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1612 - Coriolanus's mother, Volumnia, detail, p.238.
Shakespeare's source for Coriolanus's mother, Volumnia.
On this page from Plutarch’s ‘Life of Coriolanus’, Volumnia, Patrician mother of Coriolanus, agrees to go with Virgilia, his ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1612 - dedication detail, p. A3r.
The translator's dedication of a Shakespeare edition repeated in a later edition.
In his dedication to Queen Elizabeth, Sir Thomas North recognized her especial interest in the classics. He called ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1612 - title page.
A favourite book of William Shakespeare, printed by a fellow Stratfordian.
North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives was first printed by Thomas Vautrollier in 1579. The book's success led ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, London, Richard Field, 1612 - dedication, p. A3r.
Shakespeare’s queen has books of history dedicated to her.
Sir Thomas North, a lawyer, whose father had been an MP and privy councillor to Henry VIII and to Mary Tudor, dedicated his translation ...
Practical Dissertation on the Waters of Leamington Spa
This is a third edition paper back book from 1831 contained within a box. The book includes a history of the springs at Leamington Spa.
Railway Poster - Clanland
London Midland and Scottish Railway Company A poster advertising Clanland , a book of the Scottish Highlands and Highlanders. The poster depicts a man in traditional Scottish dress bowing and holding ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles , London for George Bishop, 1577, - Elizabethan men at a meeting, woodcut, page 119, detail.
John Shakespeare, an alderman of Stratford.
When William Shakespeare's father, John, a glove-maker by trade, attended aldermen's meetings in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1560s and 1570s, the council ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - 'History of England', p.46.
Shakespeare's source for England's mythical history.
The woodcut illustrations of the first edition of Holinshed’s work depicting scenes of battle and warfare are in contemporary dress, with ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - 'History of Scotland', title page.
Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish’ play is founded in history.
Holinshed’s first edition of The Chronicles, in 1577 included 'The Historie of Scotland' in which Shakespeare found the ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - harvest woodcut, 'History of Scotland', p. 232.
A harvest scene, from a book known to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s parents both came from farming families so he knew well that everyone in country districts would help with cutting and sheaving ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - Kings Cymbeline and Guiderius, 'History of England' p.47.
Shakespeare's source for Cymbeline.
Besides the story of Guiderius, which was based on myth and legend, Shakespeare found, in the 'Chronicles of Scotland', a tale of a nobleman and his two sons fighting ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - Macbeth and Banquo, woodcut, 'History of Scotland', p.243, detail.
Shakespeare's source for Macbeth's meeting with the weird sisters.
This woodcut, from Holinshed's first edition of 'The Chronicles of Scotland' shows the meeting of Macbeth and Banquo with the three ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - Macbeth and the weird sisters, 'History of Scotland', p.244, detail.
Shakespeare's source for the killing of King Duncan.
Macbeth kills Duncan, and has himself crowned at Scone, as Ross and Macduff discuss: ‘the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. He is already ...