by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Orlando, from the play As You Like It, talks about church bells knolling, and later in that same play, the Duke talks about how we “have with holy bell been knoll’d to church.” There’s a conversation in Act II of Pericles where two fishermen discuss a parish...
by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Image of foundry and a man heating up a forge. 16th century | Source Images of Bells in Leicestershire which date to 1584 | Source 1580 frontspiece featuring an image of a man working metal | Metallurgy 16th century |Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt...
by CCash | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
“Get me the ink and paper.” Cleopatra demands in Antony and Cleopatra (I.5) In Henry IV Part I, Peto says “Nothing but papers, my lord.” (II.4) These are just two of over 100 references to paper in Shakespeare’s plays, with characters reading papers, carrying...
by CCash | Apr 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Text on this page is a rough transcript from our interview (unless otherwise noted). Details under the images are related to the picture or artifact and are not reflective of any comments by the guest. Paper Was Made From Linen In a word—rags. If the paper was meant...
by CCash | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
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