4 The Republic has been linked with Julius Caesar and Troilus and Cressida, 5 the latter also with Ficino’s translation and commentary on Euthryphro. 2 The Sonnets have been linked with The Republic 3 and The Symposium. James Shapiro suggests that a grammar school education ‘was roughly equivalent to a university degree today, with a better facility in Latin than that of a typical classics major’. Recent Shakespearean scholarship has shown that Shakespeare’s engagement with the Classics was both extensive and original. Ben Jonson may have described Shakespeare as someone with ‘little Latine and lesse Greeke’, but he also, in the same breath, wished famous Greek and Roman writers to come back ‘to life again,/to hear Buskin tread … shake the Scene’, 1 presumably so that they could witness the good use to which Shakespeare had put their traditions.
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