English Literature Professor Gifts

'I'd forgotten how non-textual nature could be.'

Mrs Gummidge casts a damp on our Departure

Portrait of Frederick Locker.

"Did you notice? Ophelia's still dripping."

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

"I wouldn't read that book, dear... it's only there to impress visitors."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"You're going to hate yourself."

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

'Hamlet'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

The Demise of Tinkerbell

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Shakespeare was bisexual

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'