by CCash | Mar 17, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
I think we should clarify right way that the famous “Quiney Scandal” where Judith’s husband was excommunicated happened in March of 1616, just a month before William Shakespeare died. We talk more about that event, in our first episode with Grace, but let’s pick up...
by CCash | Mar 10, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
The final part of an autograph letter of Queen Mary to Pope Sixtus V. Vatican City, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Archivum Arcis, Arm. I–XVIII, 4082, fol. 3v–4r. | 23 November 1586 | Public Domain| Source Excerpt from a book published in 1850, including this image...
by CCash | Mar 3, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
From the top left: These are all images of Shakespeare’s will. The first image is a close up of Shakespeare’s signature. While not yet required legally, a signature was common place on wills during Shakespeare’s lifetime. | This is a close up of the...
by CCash | Feb 24, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fortinbras orders an elaborate military funeral for Hamlet. I’ve read that Sir Philip Sydney’s actual funeral in 1587 might have been the inspiration behind this scene in the play. Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, After Antonis Mor (1519–1575)...
by CCash | Feb 17, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Google Maps Screenshot, taken by Cassidy Cash, of the location of The Curtain theater in Shoreditch. Source At the excavation site, a section of brick walls was discovered that were determined to be the foundations of The Curtain theater. We started work on the...
by CCash | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog, Detailed Show Notes
Timucua smoking game in Florida circa 1562. Drawings by en:Jacques le Moyne.| Public Domain | Source Preserving Milk Sweet milk is a phrase for very fresh milk, which indicates perhaps there were milks that weren’t fresh milked. Quite common to boil milk, they didn’t...
