by CCash | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife William Shakespeare’s father, John Shakespeare, spent a great deal of time in trouble with the government over his illegal sale of wool....
by CCash | Nov 24, 2017 | Blog, DIY History
William Shakespeare lived and worked at the start of what historians refer to as The Golden Age of Libraries. It was a boom of library expansion and establishment fueled by a culture which valued education and wanted to see knowledge found in manuscripts...
by CCash | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog, DIY History
This week at That Shakespeare Girl, we are taking a look at libraries in Renaissance England. Spurred forward by a debate I saw on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Facebook page. They were discussing Shakespeare’s authorship question (decidedly with the bias...
by CCash | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog
Happy St. Crispin's Day! On this day in 286, two twins Crispin and Crispinian, were martyred for their faith and later declared saints. While no longer an official feast day on the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, Shakespeare's play, Henry V, immortalized their...
by CCash | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog
5 Things We Can Learn From Henry V about How To Motivate a Team “Although Shakespeare penned this work nearly two hundred years after the Battle of Agincourt (1415), it remains the finest dramatic interpretation of what leadership meant to the men in the Middle...
