by CCash | Jun 8, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare is famous for his costume changes in his plays, including characters that swap genders and seemingly fool the world as their true identity simply by a change of clothes. Since Shakespeare’s playing companies were all male, and still manage to portray some...
by CCash | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, there are over 150 references to the word “hair” across which Shakespeare talks about a barber fixing someone’s hair, about hair being dyed, about losing your hair being a natural product of old age, combing your hair, and even the weight of...
by CCash | May 25, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, he uses the word “gauntlet” a total of 6 times. In one instance, the stage directions declare that a character “throws down his gauntlet.” In Hamlet, stage directions again refer to a gauntlet by saying that attendants bring “foils...
by CCash | May 18, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Zounds! Your Bunched Back toad! In Shakespeare’s plays we find a hoard of truly fabulous one liners, zingers, and impressive insults that frequent the lips of our favorite characters. When they were written in the 16th century, some of the words we find most...
by CCash | May 11, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet declares “Thou know’st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek” Katherina in Taming of the Shrew talks about painting your face, and Timon of Athens makes a connection between painting and your face...
by CCash | May 4, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Immigration, labor tensions, and social unrest were pressing realities in Shakespeare’s England—and few events capture that strain more vividly than the 1517 uprising known as Evil May Day. In this week’s episode, historian Shannon McSheffrey joins us to unpack the...
