The world’s first time traveler sets out to visit a retired Will Shakespeare, carrying along a case of books that he hopes will be a unique treat for the immortal bard.
In my storage case were volumes for his perusal—a concise history of the world through the year 2000, a selection of the greatest poets since the master, selected volumes of Shakespearean criticism, and the massive one-volume Armstead Shakespeare, the definitive Shakespeare, published in 1997.

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  1. “The Merchant of Stratford” by Frank Ramirez, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1979.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Frank Ramirez