"Taking Centre Stage: Plutarch and Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo755/
Author:
	Dimitrova, Miryana.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2019
Publication Information:
	Xenophontos, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, 493–511.
:
	Xenophontos, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch
Annotation:
	Explores Shakespeare's use of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, translated by Thomas North. Considers internal conflict and "violent interaction with the dominant society" in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. Suggests that Julius Caesar has "direct bearing on the vexed question of the ageing Queen Elizabeth's succession"; positions Antony and Cleopatra as a warning against "emotional obsession"; and submits Coriolanus as an example of "the individual against the state."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Xenophontos, Sophia; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina; Plutarch; North, Thomas; Elizabeth I
Tags:
	Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo755