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The Tudor writer Roger Ascham (c.1514 1568) was royal tutor to Princess Elizabeth. Ascham is best known for his works Toxophilus (1545) and The Scholemaster (1570) which were edited, together with his Report of the Affairs and State of Germany (1570), by the renowned literary scholar William Aldis Wright (1831 1914) and published in 1904 as part of the Cambridge English Classics series. Toxophilus, a Ciceronian dialogue between Philologus (the lover of study) and Toxophilus (the lover of the bow), articulates the importance of physical training to a gentleman's education. The Scholemaster,...
The Tudor writer Roger Ascham (c.1514 1568) was royal tutor to Princess Elizabeth. Ascham is best known for his works Toxophilus (1545) and The Schole...
