by CCash | May 27, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Glass is used over 80 times in Shakespeare’s works, including to talk about specific kinds of glass like pilot’s glass in Alls Well That Ends Well, and “the glasses of my sight” in Coriolanus. We can see from the surviving Shakespeare’s Birthplace in Stratford...
by CCash | May 27, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The Doge of Venice visiting the glass factories of Murano, Italy | 19th century illustration | Biblioteca de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias del Trabajo Universidad de Sevilla | Engraving:François-Pierre-Jean-Désiré Dumont | This file is licensed under...
by CCash | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
There’s bonus history related to our episodes available on Patreon. Affiliate links are used where available. Shakespeare uses the word “spectacles” 8 times across his works, and talks about glass eyes in King Lear. In A Winter’s Tale Leontes is talking with...
by CCash | Jan 18, 2020 | Blog, DIY History
Venezia, piatto con nervature, soffiato a mezza stampatura e decorato a smalti e foglia d'oro graffita, in cristallo, 1490-1525 ca. Murano Glass Museum. Uploaded by aritist Sailko August 2018. Source When you look up “Clothing Irons” the first electric one was made in...
