
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
In Our Time: History
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The Importance of Rome in Shakespeare's Life
The work that made Shakespeare's name was not actually a play, but a poem called Venus and Adonis. He read it in Ovid's Metamorphoses, his favourite book, which he read in an English translation. Plutarch himself was writing in the 1st century AD,. born probably around AD 45, dies probably around 120. And we tend to divide his writings into two categories: moral essays... and then there are the lives of Greeks and Romans.
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