How the Classics Made Shakespeare

by Jonathan Bate

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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. 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691161607

ISBN13:9780691161600

Release Date:April 2019

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"

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