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Article: Jonson, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Virgil.(Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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Jonson, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Virgil By Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
As early as Ben Jonson's sniping at his rival's "small Latin and less Greek," Shakespeare's relationship to "insolent Greece or haughty Rome" has carried ideological weight. In this same poem where he thus singled out his fellow's ignorance, Jonson did glorify Shakespeare as the "triumph" of Britain. Indeed, Shakespeare's indifference to neoclassicism has been as much celebrated as deplored. Many scholars have delighted in narrating the victory of a vigorous native English tradition over a cold, academic, and moribund neoclassical movement. Most ...