by CCash | Aug 3, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
“Close your eyes and imagine yourself in the sixteenth-century English countryside. Sounds of ploughs rattle in distant fields, and the delightful squeals of children at play fill the air. It is quiet, you think, quieter than you are used...
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 | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Martin Butler “Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque? what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time, if not with some delight?” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1 There are over a dozen mentions of...
by CCash | Aug 18, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Andrea Zuvich “I think this be the most villanous house in all London road for fleas…” – Henry IV Part I (II.1) So complains one of Shakespeare’s characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor, voicing what was surely a common frustration in the...
by CCash | Aug 18, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Emily Winerock From the lively galliard to the intimate volta, dancing was more than entertainment—it was a statement of identity, politics, and even resistance. In the world Shakespeare inhabited, dance could reveal your rank, signal your intentions in...
