Short Story
The Merchant of Stratford
- by Frank Ramirez
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1979
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.
