Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
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Shakespeare - The Soul of the Age by Ben Jonson
The book includes a long eulogy poem by ben jonson, which contains really effusive praise of shakespeare. He declares shake pere as equal to or better than the classics, even sophocles. And finally, he puts forward sh Shakespeare as a new classic, a pride of britain in the same way that ancient writers were the great monuments of greece and rome.
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