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Articles with keyword "England"

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Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

Performance of <em>Twelfth Night</em>

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Shakespeare in Six Parts

Actors and Scholars explore the hidden wonders of more than a half dozen plays.

Hand showing small pox pustules

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Pox in the City

From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphs.

The Eye of a Lady by Anonymous, ca. 1800

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The Mysterious Miss Austen

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

Dust Jacket for "How to Do Things with Books"

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How to Do Things with Books

Victorian novelists took dim view of bibliophiles

Bram Stoker in 1906

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When Bram Met Walt

Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.

Characters from "Desperate Fishwives"

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Travale's Travails

Educational adventure-game explores Elizabethan Age.

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Interesting Mustard

The rise of the restaurant.

Manuscript page from Richard Rufus's work

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Rufus Refused Credit

Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years

Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire

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Impertinent Questions with Paul D. Halliday

On the origins of habeas corpus.