Will in the World How Shakespeare Become Shakespeareby Stephen Greenblatt
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Everyone understood that Latin learning was inseparable from whipping.
One educational theorist of the time speculated that the buttocks were created in order to facilitate the learning of Latin.
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Virtually all schoolmasters agreed that one of the best ways to instill good Latin in their students was to have them read and perform ancient plays, especially the comedies of Terence and Plautus.
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