Thomas Platter

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Thomas Platter (the Elder) (February 10, 1499 in Grächen, Valais - January 26, 1582 in Basel) was a Swiss humanist scholar and writer.

He wrote: "England is a woman's paradise and a servant's prison" (a quotation from publication by Platter written in October 1599).

Platter's report of his visit to a theatre on the Southbank of the Thames in London to see Julius Caesar on the 21 September 1599 ("at about two o'clock", he writes) provides Shakespearean scholars with evidence for the dating of that play.[1]

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Platter's Autobiography, translated into English in 1839 [1] Excerpt relevant to Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Marvin Spevack, Introduction to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, New Cambridge Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 1988), p.3-4).
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