Richard Farmer

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Richard Farmer FRS FSA (1735–1797) was a Shakespearean scholar and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is known for his Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (1767), in which he maintained that Shakespeares knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced.

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