by CCash | Feb 3, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes, Shakespeare Christmas
Candles for Candlemas February 2 marks the halfway point between the end of Winter and the Beginning of Spring. At any such turning point of the year, holidays were held, and Candlemas is one such celebration. Candlemas is a Christian celebration, marking the end of...
by CCash | Jan 20, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
The play Richard II is considered an inflammatory play from Shakespeare’s lifetime, because it includes an abdication scene where Richard II gives up the crown. The issue of Elizabeth I not having an heir made this play a particularly spicy one for her reign, and was...
by CCash | Jan 13, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Golf in England The oldest known golf courses originated in Scotland. They are first mentioned in 1457 and in England, it catches on more slowly, never enjoying the kind of popularity it has today during Shakespeare’s lifetime. First mention [of golf] in England...
by CCash | Dec 30, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. Horatio, Hamlet (I.1) The first place you will probably think of for people to go ice skating in Shakespeare’s lifetime will be frozen rivers or lakes. The many illustrations of winter time we have from the 16-17th...
by CCash | Dec 23, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The word “wassail” derives from a phrase, “wæs þu hæl”, which means “be you healthy.” the old English version of this greeting is “was hál,” which is where the word “wassail” comes from that we use today, and...
by CCash | Dec 16, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS. 7228 f. 19 | Source: Jordanus Ruffus and the late-medieval hippiatric tradition: Animal-care practitioners and the horse by Sunny Harrison, 2018 | Accessed October 9, 2024 In this image, practioners are treating the...
