Shakespeare's Plutarch: The Lives Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marcus Antonius, and Coriolanus in the Translation of Sir Thomas North

by T.J.B. Spencer (Editor)

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368 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Professor Terence John Bew Spencer

Reviews

[Ian Banks · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really simple idea: a copy of the Plutarch Lives used by Shakespeare (nobody else) when writing his plays about classical history, annotated with the sections of the script where he has used them for information or - less palatably - blatantly cribbed from them. Brilliant!