by CCash | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare uses the phrase, “Hue and cry” twice in his plays. Once in Henry IV Part 1and again in Merry Wives of Windsor. In the Middle Ages, this phrase represented a civilian peacekeeping effort that remained officially on the books in England until the 19th...
by CCash | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the Episode: Here’s the Chaucer quote from the Wife of Bath’s tale. The quote is taken from F. N. Robinson, ed.,The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988), 256. “My felawe mordred is this same nyght, And in this carte he lith...