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Children’s Toys and Games in Tudor England
When we imagine William Shakespeare, we often picture the playwright at his desk—or standing in a London playhouse—but before any of that, he was a child. A boy growing up in Stratford-upon-Avon, surrounded by siblings, neighbors, household noise, and the everyday...
How Historians Know Shakespeare Is Shakespeare
For years now, listeners have occasionally written to ask why I’ve never done a full episode on the Shakespeare authorship debate. The honest answer is this: I’ve generally steered clear of it. Not because the questions aren’t interesting — they are — but because from...
Ides of March in Renaissance England
In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, the Soothsayer immortalizes the warning, “Beware the ides of March.” Since then, we’ve joked about March being dangerous, and blaming the 15th of the month for any variety of events we might should have seen coming all due to the...
