Re: Re: deracinate

[Beverly Flanigan]

Hey, you're right!  My memory is faulty after 40 years. . . .

At 10:43 AM 11/19/2004, you wrote:
> > >
> > >Maybe Shakespeare had a reasonable command of Latin morphology?
> > >
> > >-Wilson Gray
> >
> > Yes, he supposedly had "a little Latine and lesse Greeke," as I
> > recall from
> > my medieval and Renaissance studies at SLU. -- Beverly Flanigan
> >
>
>What Shakespeare had was "little Latine and lesse Greeke," not "a little
>Latin".  This was a remark by Ben Jonson, another Elizabethan poet and
>playwright, who was a notable scholar of Latin and Greek, though with
>probably not much more formal education than Shakespeare had.  If I recall
>the story correctly, Jonson was brought up as a bricklayer, and was
>discovered when young by someone who spotted him spending his coffee break
>reading a Greek text.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
>"We have seen the best of our time.  Machinations, hololwness, treachery,
>and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves."  King Lear,
>Act 1, scene 2 (Gloucester speaking).
>
> >