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  • Chapter 9 - Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine

  • from Part III - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
  • Rebecca Kingston, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Plutarch's Prism
    Published online:
    22 September 2022
    Print publication:
    29 September 2022, pp 318-350

  • Summary

    Chapter 9 discusses the use of Plutarch in drama understood as a mode of political reflection. I provide a brief analysis of the political implications of Shakespeare’s (1564–1616) famous use of Plutarch in a series of plays devoted to key figures of the classical era. I explore how Shakespeare’s depiction of public life shifted between his first Roman play Titus Andronicus, deemed to have been written before his close study of North’s translations of Plutarch, and his latter plays focused on key Greek and Roman historical figures (Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra) for which his use of North is heavily documented and discussed. I then explore political themes and argument stemming from Plutarch and as relayed through Pierre Corneille’s (1606–1684) Pompée and Jean Racine’s (1639–1699) Mithridate.