by CCash | Oct 5, 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....
by CCash | Jun 29, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck has a line that says “And now they never meet in grove or green, By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen…” In Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio uses this term again saying, “What stars do spangle heaven...
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 | May 25, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, he uses the word “gauntlet” a total of 6 times. In one instance, the stage directions declare that a character “throws down his gauntlet.” In Hamlet, stage directions again refer to a gauntlet by saying that attendants bring “foils...
