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David B. Goldstein
The dinner table as classroom: Home-schooling gone wrong in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
Shakespeare and Beyond
The dinner table as classroom: Home-schooling gone wrong in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew showcases one of the earliest and thorniest examples of teaching in a home environment—thorny both because of the way pedagogy in the play is full of cynicism and brutality, and because, on the…
A Guide to Ladies: Hannah Woolley's missing book emerges from the archives
Shakespeare and Beyond
A Guide to Ladies: Hannah Woolley's missing book emerges from the archives
One of Hannah Woolley’s books has sat hidden in plain sight at the Folger since 1990—included in the Folger online catalog, but missing from an international database that scholars often use to search for early English books. It is the…
Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in 'Macbeth'
Shakespeare and Beyond
Toil and trouble: Recipes and the witches in 'Macbeth'
Shakespeare’s witches, like nearly all witches of Shakespeare’s time, have their roots in the kitchen more than in the study.