by CCash | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare uses the word torment more than forty times in his plays. For modern listeners, torment often feels internal — guilt, grief, jealousy, remorse. But in Shakespeare’s England, torment could also be something far more literal. It could be...
by CCash | Sep 28, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In the decades that followed Shakespeare’s death in 1616, England saw the arrival of events known as witch panics of Civil War–era Britain. It’s easy to think that these witch panics and the heightened fear about witches was something that’s post-Shakespeare,...
by CCash | Sep 21, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Long before fashion magazines, personal style blogs, or carefully curated social media feeds, a 16th century German accountant named Matthäus Schwarz was documenting his wardrobe in extraordinary detail. Between 1520 and 1560, Schwarz commissioned artists...
by CCash | Aug 24, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare mentions cats over 30 times in his plays, including to talk about a gib cat, a musk-cat, cats chasing mice and even making perfume. It’s obvious that cats were present for Shakespeare’s lifetime, but what do these references in the...
by CCash | Aug 17, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare mentions “housewife” in his works 14 times, including to identify both a “good housewife” as well as a “false housewife.” These descriptions appear alongside one accusation that a woman was being someone’s “franklin’s housewife.” As an essential part...
