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  • The Shakespeare-Shapleigh Entanglement
    May 1887 Issue
  • The Variorum Twelfth Night
    William Allan NeilsonMay 1902 Issue
  • The Bacon-Shakespeare Craze
    Richard Grant WhiteApril 1883 Issue
  • What Factory Girls Read
    August 1896 Issue
  • Notes: Was the Bard Behind It?

    Old light on the Lincoln assassination

    John F. AndrewsOctober 1990 Issue
  • Art
    September 1872 Issue
  • Reader's Choice
    Charles J. RoloApril 1950 Issue
  • Arts & Letters

    This is the seventh in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary.

    Fiction 2006 Issue
  • A Night at the Mermaid
    Russell MaloneyDecember 1946 Issue
  • The Ultimate Nightingale
    June 1923 Issue
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