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 | 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 | Jul 27, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, there’s a lively scene set in Eastcheap, inside the bustling Boar’s Head Tavern, where the roguish Sir John Falstaff trades wit and wine with the young Prince Hal—England’s future Henry V. To Shakespeare’s audience, this wasn’t some...
by CCash | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Hamlet wagers 6 Barbary horses against 6 French swords. Falstaff talks about fighting with a Barbary hen. Bassanio in Merchant of Venice talks about travelling merchants going to foreign lands including “Tripolis, Mexico and England, Lisbon, Barbary, and India” There...
by CCash | Jul 13, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Stratford Upon Avon, where William Shakespeare was born, there is a house that was built in 1530, while King Henry VIII was ruling England. This house was there when Shakespeare was living in the town, and the owners have direct connections to Shakespeare himself....
