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David B. Goldstein
is a critic, poet, food writer, and Associate Professor at York University in Toronto. His publications include Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the poetry collection Lost Originals (BookThug, 2016). He is currently co-director of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Mellon-funded research project Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures.
The dinner table as classroom: Home-schooling gone wrong in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
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David B. Goldstein
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
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David B. Goldstein
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…
