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Shakespeare adapted a number of parts of Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks and the Romans. Plutarch wrote about the lives of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Brutus, and Mark Antony, which form the basis of the plays Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare occasionally and especially in Antony and Cleopatra, copied or slightly modified the text of the translation he was using, that of Thomas North, first printed in 1579. The description of Cleopatra's barge is an example of this.

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