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Plays based on works by Plutarch

  • 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.
  • Julius Caesar (play)Thomas Platter the Younger wrote in his diary on the 21st of September 1599 that he saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a Bankside theatre.