by CCash | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog, Macbeth, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare made the three witch sisters famous in his play, Macbeth, by showcasing their manipulative power, incantations, and their famous pot of double double toil and trouble. While this version of witches makes for a fun spoof at Halloween parties today, when...
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 | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife “Pregnant” is a word Shakespeare uses in his plays, but it always appears in connection with ideas, grief, or even trauma, but never as a word...
by CCash | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act III, Sir Toby Belch uses the Great Bed of Ware in England as a measuring stick for something that is...
by CCash | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife Of all the history we know about William Shakespeare and what it was like to live in turn of the 17th century England, one of the hardest...
