Description From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman Classics forged Shakespeare\'s imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating.
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Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to London, a city that modeled itself on ancient Rome.
Shakespeare was steeped in the classics.
Description From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman Classics forged Shakespeare\'s imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating