by CCash | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Carol Chillington Rutter There are many men who lived alongside William Shakespeare in turn of the 17th century England, but today’s featured contemporary is a man who served as King James’ ambassador to Venice in the 1600s. This man was named Henry...
by CCash | Jan 26, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Samantha Bilton From delectable marchpane in Romeo and Juliet, and the herbs of the Merchant of Venice to stew’d prunes of Henry IV, and carving capons in Love’s Labour’s Lost, there is a wide gambit of meals consumed in Shakespeare’s plays that span from bawdy...
by CCash | Jan 19, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Paul Lockhart When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, he gave the melancholy Dane two university friends with peculiarly Danish names—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. For many centuries, audiences assumed these were simply fictional creations. Yet history reveals that...
by CCash | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog, Macbeth, Podcast Episodes
with Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrooke “This week, we’re dipping into the strange, the enchanted, and the eerily familiar with a sampling of the rich world of 16th-century folklore during Shakespeare’s lifetime. From medieval hares and charmed pilgrim tokens to tales of...
by CCash | Sep 29, 2025 | Podcast Episodes
with Chloe Houston and Mark Hutchings “What, think You we are Turks or infidels?”— Richard III Act III, Scene iv When Shakespeare wrote Othello, he cast the Ottoman Empire as a looming threat—an enemy powerful enough to demand England’s attention. Yet...
