The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . the Stratford GrammarSchool, an ancient institution which, after beingclosed for some years on account of the disso-lution of the local Guild, on whose revenuesit was dependent, by Henry VIII. in 1547, wasre-established by Edward VI. in 1553 as TheKings New School of masters of the school in the poets boyhoodwere university men of good scholarship. Thestudies were mainly Latin, with writing andarithmetic, and possibly
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . the Stratford GrammarSchool, an ancient institution which, after beingclosed for some years on account of the disso-lution of the local Guild, on whose revenuesit was dependent, by Henry VIII. in 1547, wasre-established by Edward VI. in 1553 as TheKings New School of masters of the school in the poets boyhoodwere university men of good scholarship. Thestudies were mainly Latin, with writing andarithmetic, and possibly a little Greek, whichwas sometimes taught in the grammar schoolsat that time. Ben Jonson credits Shakespearewith small Latin and less Greek ; and we maybe quite certain that the boy had no regularschooling except wdiat he got at Stratford. Itis evident from his works that he had not thelearning which a few of the critics have as-cribed to him. His quotations from Latin lit-erature are such as a schoolboy might makefrom Virgil, Ovid, and the other authors hehad studied; and his allusions to classical his-tory and mythology are mostly from the same. WILLIAM siL\ki-:sii-:.\in:. SHAKESPEARE sources, or from the familiar stock in Englislibooks of the period. The historical materialsof his plays are evidently from a very limitednumber of English authorities, like HolinshedsChronicles and Norths Plutarch; and inthe use of these he often makes mistakes ofwhich an average scholar could never be guilty. It should be understood that the notionthat Shakespeare was a learned man is of com-paratively modern date. In the references tothe dramatist in the literature of his day andfor a century after his death (as carefully col-lected by the New Shakspere Society of Lon-don) there is no hint of it, while expressionsof the contrary opinion are frequent. JohnHales of Eton, writing before 1633, and re-ferring to a conversation concerning Shake-speare in which Sir John Suckling, Sir WilliamDavenant
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