by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Orlando, from the play As You Like It, talks about church bells knolling, and later in that same play, the Duke talks about how we “have with holy bell been knoll’d to church.” There’s a conversation in Act II of Pericles where two fishermen discuss a parish...
by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Image of foundry and a man heating up a forge. 16th century | Source Images of Bells in Leicestershire which date to 1584 | Source 1580 frontspiece featuring an image of a man working metal | Metallurgy 16th century |Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt...
by CCash | Feb 24, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fortinbras orders an elaborate military funeral for Hamlet. I’ve read that Sir Philip Sydney’s actual funeral in 1587 might have been the inspiration behind this scene in the play. Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, After Antonis Mor (1519–1575)...
by CCash | Feb 24, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
With all the death in Shakespeare’s works, you may not be shocked that the word “Funeral” comes up in Shakespeare’s plays over 20 times, but what is surprising is that funeral ceremonies are used by Shakespeare in multiple plays to serve a specific role, almost a...
by CCash | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog
One of the ways we fund the podcast is through affiliate links. If you purchase these items through our links, we make a commission. This, and all the posts here on our website, may contain such affiliate links. Welcome to Episode #80 of That Shakespeare Life, the...
