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Ben Jonson

Elizabethan education and Ben Jonson's school days
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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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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.

Ben Jonson's Library
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Ben Jonson's Library

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

While last week we brought up the anniversary of Ben Jonson’s first folio and discussed copies of this book that are held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, this week we’ll discuss Jonson’s library and his books at Folger. Jonson is…

The Other First Folio
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The Other First Folio

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Abbie Weinberg Elizabeth DeBold

Although many people talk about Shakespeare’s First Folio, we often forget another, perhaps equally important, First Folio that arrived slightly earlier, in 1616. While most of the attention this year has been on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this other…