If you really want to know Shakespeare, you have to step inside his world.
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“That Shakespeare Life is a particularly valuable resource, an appropriately wide-ranging collection of bite-sized, engaging interviews that offers insights into everything from medlars to mandrakes, pirates to pumpkins. More than just a handy introduction…each episode, through its list of sources recommended by an expert on the topic, also offers a jumping-off point for further study that will prove useful for students and scholars alike.”
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New Discovery About the Blackfriars with Lucy Munro
This episode traces the history of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars property after his death, following its passage from his daughter Susanna Hall to his granddaughter Elizabeth Barnard. Newly identified legal records—including a 1639 settlement, Elizabeth’s sale of the property in the 1660s, and a later Close Roll conveyance—help clarify the disputes over its ownership and preserve a direct documentary link back to William Shakespeare.
Find out what it’s like inside a Tudor Home
Come inside a typical Tudor home with our guest, Bethan Watts as she shares about the happenings, objects, and people we would find inside.
Tankards and Trouble: Alehouses in Shakespeare’s England
This week, we’re joined by Mark Hailwood, author of Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England, to step through the tavern door and into the noisy, smoky world of 16th- and 17th-century alehouses.
Together, we’ll explore the people who ran these establishments, the customs and rules that governed them, the drinks poured across the bar, and the colorful realities behind Shakespeare’s tavern scenes. Was Mistress Quickly inspired by real alehouse keepers? How accurate were Shakespeare’s depictions of tavern life? And what details from the plays ring true—or delightfully false—when held up against the history of early modern England?
Let’s find out!
