Protestant theology and apocalyptic rhetoric in Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster.(Critical essay)(Report)

Journal of the History of Ideas | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

Samuel Johnson described Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster (1570) as "perhaps containing the best advice that was ever given for the study of languages." (1) Not prone to hyperbole, Johnson recognized in Ascham the same excellence that Elizabeth did. Upon taking the throne, she invited Ascham to become her informal tutor, and he agreed, having already instructed the teenage Elizabeth in rhetoric and grammar. Ascham also gained fame in England as the author of Toxophilus, or the School or Partitions of Shooting (1545), on the surface a book about archery, but at bottom an ...

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