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Sir Thomas North

1535 - 1601

About the Author

North’s translations of Plutarch had a considerable impact on the development of the English language and were used as sources by Shakespeare in the writing of several of his plays.

In The Library:

• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 1 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 2 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 3 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 4 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 5 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 6 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 7 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 8 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 9 (1579)
• translator: Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North, vol. 10 (1579)
• translator: Shakespeare’s Plutarch, 2 vols. (1579)
• translator: Shakespeare’s Plutarch, Vol. I (containing the main sources of Julius Caesar) (1579)
• translator: Shakespeare’s Plutarch, Vol. 2 (containing the main sources of Anthony and Cleopatra and of Coriolanus) (1579)