Did Shakespeare Get Snitched On? (New on YouTube)

Did Shakespeare Get Snitched On? (New on YouTube)

In Shakespeare's lifetime, being a snitch was a professional pastime. One at whose hands the Shakespeare family paid dearly. In Shakespeare's lifetime, individuals who owed the Crown money could be brought up on charges by people who were essentially spies for the...
Did Shakespeare Smoke Tobacco? (New on YouTube)

Did Shakespeare Smoke Tobacco? (New on YouTube)

When Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco over to England in the late 1500s, he tried to get Elizabeth I to try it. She must have liked it because the small little plant took off in popularity, being smoked, raised, farmed, harvested, and used both medicinally and...