How the classics made Shakespeare /
Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to London, a city that modeled itself on ancient Rom...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | E. H. Gombrich lecture series
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