The bawdy pound-of-flesh motif in the Gesta Romanorum illustrates the moral range of Shakespeare’s medieval sources for The Merchant of Venice. … Read the post bawdy medieval version of The Merchant of Venice’s pound of flesh
Slavitt’s Ausonius is an epiphany into prosody with meter of hypertext-hypertext syllable distance. Centos of Virgil & Shakespeare demand prosaic studies. … Read the post on first looking into Slavitt’s Ausonius: prolegomenon to prosaic studies
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defined woman & man with deeply rooted anti-men gender bias. Johnson masochistically enjoyed women dominating him. … Read the post Johnson’s Dictionary and life show gender bias & gender subordination
Institutions holding rare objects like Shakespeare’s First Folio won’t sell them for any price. Well-endowed institutions also won’t die. … Read the post institutional ownership reduces First Folio liquidity
The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, provides a benchmark price for an up-market, popular book about four centuries ago. … Read the post over past four centuries, books much cheaper, but less price dispersion