Selected Lives (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

基本信息·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：896 页
·出版日期：1999年12月
·ISBN：1853267945
·条形码：9781853267949
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

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Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.