by CCash | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare talks about unbuttoning your sleeve in As You Like It, King Lear undoes a button in Act V of that play, and Moth talks about making a buttonhole lower in Love’s Labour’s Lost. We’ve talked about clothes here on the show previously, but what about the...
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 | Apr 11, 2022 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
John Taylor is a poet contemporary to Shakespeare, but with a decidedly unique approach to the writing profession. John Taylor trained professionally as a waterman, or a river worker who taxied passengers to and from city destinations on the rivers like the River...
by CCash | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare references “beer” in his works 6 times, drawing attention to specific kinds of beer like “small beer” “double beer” and even one reference in Hamlet to beer barrels where the Prince of Denmark suggests that beer barrels had a stopper to keep them sealed....
