... short comparisons affixed to the lives are of doubtful authenticity. The English translation by Sir Thomas North had a profound effect upon English literature; it supplied, for example, the material for Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens. A translation by John Dryden was revised by A. H. Clough in 1864. Although Plutarch displays evident pride in the culture ... Holbach, and Claude Helvétius. 4 In England the coffeehouses and the newly flourishing press stimulated social and political criticism, such as the urbane commentary of Joseph Add...

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