Multiple choice

Shakespeare

  1. was a great scholar of Latin

  2. knew a lot of Greek

  3. had a great command over English

  4. knew little Latin and less Greek
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Despite his enormous vocabulary and creative genius, Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' as Ben Jonson noted. His brilliance lay in his mastery of English, not classical scholarship.

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