by CCash | Nov 6, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife Shakespeare’s plays refer to a napkin at least 20 times, including As You Like It where Rosalind mentions a bloody napkin, in Hamlet the...
by CCash | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
One of the ways we fund the podcast is through affiliate links. If you purchase these items through our links, we make a commission that goes towards maintaining podcast operations. This post, and all the posts here on our website, may contain such affiliate...
by CCash | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
IMAGE: Squanto or Tisquantum teaching the Plymouth colonists to plant corn with fish. Bricker, Garland Armor. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. New York: Macmillan, 1911. Page 112. Source One of the heroes of American history is Squanto. also called...
by CCash | Sep 7, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
European Hand Cannon. Punches in the siege of a fortified city. Woodcut from Lucas Brandis Rudimentum noviciorum sive Chronicarum et historiarum epitome c. 1475 Source When we think about Shakespeare and his plays, we rarely think of Good Old England as having weapons...
by CCash | May 6, 2019 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Welcome to Episode #55 of That Shakespeare Life, the podcast that takes you behind the curtain and into the life of William Shakespeare. From rapiers to broadswords, weapons fly in Shakespeare's plays, but how many of these dramatic weapons were an established part of...
