6/22/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare's plutarch![]() ![]() The sixteenth century was indeed steeped in Plutarch. The essay on the Preservation of Good Health was twice translated into Tudor prose, and that on Curiosity suffered transformation at the hands of the virgin queen herself into some of the most inharmonious of English verse. ![]() Prose of Sir Thomas Elyot, and to be published in a black-letter quarto 'imprinted,' as the colophon tells us, 'in Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet.' The same work was drawn upon unreservedly by Lyly in the second part of Euphues, and its teachings reappear a little surprisingly His treatise on the Education of Children had the honour to be early translated into the gravely charming Spirited, he is also one of the most versatile of Greek writers, and his influence has worked by devious ways to the most ![]() The most interesting chapters in the long story of the debt of moderns to ancients. The influence of the writings of Plutarch of Chaeronea on English literature might well be made the subject of one of Plutarch's Influence on Shakespeare and Other Writers of the Sixteenth Centuryįrom Shakespeare's Plutarch. ![]()
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