English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

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North, Sir Thomas

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North, Sir Thomas (1523–?1601), is famous for his translations, which include the Diall of Princes from Guevara's El Relox de Principes with The Famous Booke of Marcus Aurelius, The Morall Philosophie of Doni, from the Italian (1570), and Plutarch's Lives from the French of Jacques Amyot (1579), to which he made additions from other authors in 1595 and 1603. His Plutarch, written in a noble and vivid English, formed Shakespeare's chief storehouse of classical history and exerted a powerful influence on Elizabethan prose.

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Sir Thomas North

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Sir Thomas North 1535?–1601?, English translator. He is famous for his translation of Plutarch, entitled Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (1579), which he made from the French of Jacques Amyot. This work, ornate but vivid, was a source for many of Shakespeare's plays, among them Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, and was a major influence in the development of Elizabethan prose.

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