The complete text of Essays of Francis Bacon
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Though hast committed -
Fornication: but that was in another country
And besides, the wench is dead.
Epigraph to Eliot's Portrait of a Lady.
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Manuscript from The Chronicles of Offa that depicts the persecution of Jews in Medieval England. On their chests are fabric 'badges' that made Jewish people recognisable.
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An old article from the NY Times. Use of The Merchant of Venice as anti-Semitic propaganda - something to say about the Shylock/Barbaras figure and how their similar characters are pervasive through history.
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Una and the Lion by William Bell Scott (c. 1860)
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A video commissioned by the Chelsea Art Museum, NY, that combines the atmosphere of Spenser's 'Faerieland' and A View of the State of Ireland.
Definitely a very abstract approach to Spenser.
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