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Elizabethan education and Ben Jonson's school days
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Karen Lyon
See education in Shakespeare’s day through the eyes of Ben Jonson: learning ABCs and the Lord’s Prayer with hornbooks, and drilling Latin grammar endlessly.
Small Latin and Less Greek: A Look at the Inkhorn Controversy
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Sara Schliep
The Inkhorn Controversy in the 15th and 16th centuries focused on the use of long, Latinate words as opposed to shorter, Saxon-rooted English counterparts.
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