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  • Humanism and Fiction
    Wilson FollettOctober 1918 Issue
  • Shakespeare's Fools
    Eleanor Prescott HammondJuly 1910 Issue
  • Who Owns an Idea?

    Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what originality really means.

    Boris KachkaOctober 18, 2024
    A pen with a fish hook at the tip
  • 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
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