English Literature Professor Pillows

'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

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

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

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

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Hamlet'

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

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

'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 sitting at a desk

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

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

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

The Demise of Tinkerbell

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

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

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.