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Biographical plays about military leaders

  • Antony and CleopatraThe story of Antony and Cleopatra begins in 1579 with a translation by Sir Thomas North. This English version of Plutarch's Lives provided the raw material…
  • CoriolanusThomas North published his translation of Plutarch's Lives in 1579, and Shakespeare mined that volume for the bones of Coriolanus.