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

"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."

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

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'

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

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

'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?

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

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

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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!'

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

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

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