by CCash | Nov 10, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Ulinka Rublack In All’s Well That Ends Well, a character is described as “That with the plume: ’tis a most gallant fellow” (III.5), and in Love’s Labour’s Lost, the Princess of France mockingly asks, “What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?”...
by CCash | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare talks about unbuttoning your sleeve in As You Like It, King Lear undoes a button in Act V of that play, and Moth talks about making a buttonhole lower in Love’s Labour’s Lost. We’ve talked about clothes here on the show previously, but what about the...
by CCash | Oct 31, 2020 | Blog, DIY History
When it comes to the tradition of trick or treating on October 31, we can trace the origins of this practice back to Tudor England. Some say it was even under Queen Mary that the phrase “All Hallow’s Eve” was reportedly first used. The practice of trick or treating...
by CCash | Aug 4, 2018 | Blog, DIY History
Mentioned by name in three of Shakespeare’s plays, and alluded to in more than that the legend of Robin Hood played an important role in the collective mindset of Shakespeare’s audience and allowed the legend of everyone’s favorite outlaw to continue into the 21st...
