{"date":"November 25","id":"11-25","intro":["We are indebted to Thomas Dekker for one of the most humorous characters in all Elizabethan literature; namely, Simon Eyre, an old shoemaker whose affairs became hilariously involved with those of the gentry."],"minutes":22,"readings":[{"author":"Thomas Dekker","end":483,"start":469,"volume":47,"work":"The Shoemaker’s Holiday"}],"slug":"november-25","status":"proofread","title":"Cupid as a Shoemaker","url":"/harvard-classics/november-25/","words":4368}