Resumen de 'Say thy lesson, fool': idleness tries to teach Ignorance to read (Part One)
In a play (John Redford’s Wit and Science) written by a teacher for schoolboys to perform, one scene presents the complete failure of a very elementary reading lesson. This paper looks in detail at Tudor early-years classroom practice and its curriculum, and attempts to analyse what is going on and how and why it fails. This is the first part of the argument: the second, which also speculates on the nature of Ignorance's disability, will appear in Volume 34 of METh.
