Literature Teachers Mugs

The Best of Times/The Worst of Times

Henrik Ibsen,

'Big deal! -- anybody can build a prefab!'

A Puppet Named Juan

"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'

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

Victor Hugo

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

'Hamlet'

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"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."

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

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

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."