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M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Preface, chapter 1 (search)
ld never have been written. Besides, Plutarch, so far as I know, has not before been treated exactly from the point of view that is here adopted. My aim has been to portray him mainly in those aspects that made him such a power in the period of the Renaissance, and gave him so great a fascination for men like Henry IV., Montaigne, and, of course, above all, Shakespeare. For the same reason I have made my quotations exclusively from Philemon Holland's translation of the Morals (1st edition, 1603) and North's translation of the Lives (Mr. Wyndham's reprint), as the Elizabethan versions show how he was taken by that generation. The essay on Amyot needs less apology. In view of the fact that he was the immediate original of North, he has received in England far less recognition than he deserves. Indeed he has met with injustice. English writers have sometimes challenged his claim to have translated from the Greek. To me it has had the zest of a pious duty to repeat and enforce the
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Introduction, chapter 3 (search)
Plutarch See Plutarch's works passim, especially North's version of the Lives reprinted in the Tudor Translations, and the Morals translated by Philemon Holland (1603). See also Archbishop Trench's Lectures on Plutarch. Plutarch, born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, about 45 or 50 A.D., flourished in the last quarter of the first anseus, as well as in the Merchant of Venice, with its reference to Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia; though it did not inspire a complete play till Julius Caesar. In 1603 appeared the third edition of North's Plutarch, enlarged with new Lives which had been incorporated in Amyot's collection in 1583: and this some think to have been which was in all likelihood composed before 1595, when the second appeared. (2) He must have used the first or second for Julius Caesar, which was composed before 1603, when the third appeared. It is more difficult to speak positively in regard to Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus . It has been argued that the former cannot hav
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Julius Caesar, chapter 4 (search)
the seventeenth century. Some of the evidence for this is partly external in character. (I) In a miscellany of poems on the death of Elizabeth, printed in 1603, and entitled Sorrowes Joy, the lines occur: They say a comet woonteth to appeare When Princes baleful destinie is neare: So Julius starre was seene with fiery companied Caesar's death? Compare especially nec diri toties arsere cometae (Verg. G. 1.488)(II. ii. 30.) Another apparent loan belongs to the same year. In 1603 Drayton rewrote his poem of Mortimeriados under the title of The Barons' Wars, altering and adding many passages. One of the insertions runs: Such one he was, os that it seem'd, when Nature him began, She meant to show all that might be in man.Collier's Shakespeare. (2) Apart, however, from these apparent adaptations in 1603, there is reason to conjecture that the play had been performed by May in the previous year. At that date, as we know from Henslowe's Diary, Drayton, Webster an
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Coriolanus, chapter 17 (search)
wo editions was used. In them Coriolanus tells Aufidius: If I had feared death, I would not have come hither to have put my life in hazard: but prickt forward with spite and desire I have to be revenged of them that thus have banished me, etc. In 1603, this suffers the curtailment, pricked forward with desire to be revenged, etc. But Shakespeare says: If I had fear'd death, of all men i‘ the world I would have ‘voided thee, but in mere spite, To be full quit of those my banishers, Stand Itcome of events that occurred in the first years of the century. The material for Coriolanus was perhaps put in Shakespeare's way by a contemporary tragedy which keenly excited the Londoners, and especially the courtly and literary circles, about 1603 and 1604. Sir Walter Raleigh had been one of the most splendid gentlemen at the court of Elizabeth, was a friend of Spenser and Ben Jonson, had himself tried his hand at lyric poetry, and in addition as adventurous officer had discovered Virginia
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, part app. d, chapter 1 (search)
ecords Antony's indignation at Pompey's death. Now of that death there is no mention at all in the Marcus Antonius of Plutarch; and even in the Octavius Caesar Augustus by Simon Goulard, which was included in the 1583 edition of Amyot and in the 1603 edition of North, it is expressly attributed to Antony. Here is Goulard's statement:I quote from Shakespeare's Plutarch (Prof. Skeat), the 1603 edition of North being at present inaccessible to me. Whilst Antonius made war with the Parthians, or 1603 edition of North being at present inaccessible to me. Whilst Antonius made war with the Parthians, or rather infortunately they made war with him to his great confusion, his lieutenant Titius found the means to lay hands upon Sextus Pompeius; that was fled into the ile of Samos, and then forty years old: whom he put to death by Antonius' commandment. Appian at least leaves it an open question whether Antony was responsible or not, and thus gives his apologist an opportunity: Titius commaunded hys (i.e. Pompey's) army to sweare to Antony, and put hym to death at Mileto, when he hadde lyved to t