Gallant Fellows & Their Feathered Hats

Gallant Fellows & Their Feathered Hats

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?”...
Did Shakespeare Really Use a Quill Pen?

Did Shakespeare Really Use a Quill Pen?

This week at That Shakespeare Life we’ve been exploring Part 2 of  the world of Shakespeare’s quill pen. Part 1 took a look at whether or not he used a quill pen and answered the question about what kind that would have been. (No massive feathers like we...