by CCash | Aug 11, 2025 | Blog, Detailed Show Notes
with Mark Hutchings When the audience settled in for a performance in Shakespeare’s England, the play wasn’t the only attraction. The interval—an often overlooked segment of early modern theatre—was a moment of transition, expectation, and performance in its own...
by CCash | Jun 9, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
The following slides and images are from Dr. Tiffany Stern’s presentation on puppets for the University of Birmingham in March of 2025. Dr. Stern provided this presentation to me for use in connection with this episode. All credit for the slides belongs to Dr....
by CCash | Jun 2, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes, Macbeth
Note from Cassidy: After writing this article (and putting together this episode) I discovered that we had only covered 14 of the over 20 castles I was able to find in Shakespeare’s plays. I will share with you a complete list here along with my apologies that...
by CCash | May 26, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
These are the detailed history notes that coordinate with Ep 371 of That Shakespeare Life. Here you will find museum artifacts, woodcuts, illustrations, paintings, and primary documents related to the lenses prescribed in Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the people...
by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Image of foundry and a man heating up a forge. 16th century | Source Images of Bells in Leicestershire which date to 1584 | Source 1580 frontspiece featuring an image of a man working metal | Metallurgy 16th century |Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt...
by CCash | May 12, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
1600-1610 copy of an original portrait done in 1559, to commemorate Elizabeth I’s coronation as Queen of England. | Queen Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine. She wears her hair loose, as traditional...
