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Link: Does “Merlin” Have A Misogyny Problem?

June 28, 2012

I’ve been recapping the TV show Merlin over at California Literary Review, and one of the things I’m most often …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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