Did Shakespeare Write During Plague?

by CCash | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized

Did Shakespeare Write During Plague? Elizabethan theaters were frequently shuttered in London during outbreaks of the bubonic plague, which claimed nearly a third of the city’s population. The official rule was that once the death rate exceeded thirty per week,...

Episode 65: Who were Shakespeare’s Siblings? With David Kathman

by CCash | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog, Podcast Episodes

One of the ways we fund the podcast is through affiliate links to books, products, and resources. If you purchase these items through our links, we make a commission. This, and all the posts here on our website, may contain such affiliate links. If you have any...

Did Shakespeare Know about Centaurs?

by CCash | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog, Did Shakespeare

In the Middle Ages, beastiaries became popular as books of illustrations that collected diagrams nad explanations of all the animals in the world. Each illustration was paired up with a moral lesson, stemming from the idea that the world was the Word of God and every...

Episode 62: Amy Lidster and Old St. Paul’s Cathedral

by CCash | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Podcast Episodes

One of the ways we fund the podcast is through affiliate links to books, products, and resources. If you purchase these items through our links, we make a commission. This, and all the posts here on our website, may contain such affiliate links. If you have any...

Episode 51: Rob Henke on Poverty and the Playhouse

by CCash | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog, Podcast Episodes

Welcome to Episode #51 of That Shakespeare Life, the podcast that takes you behind the curtain and into the life of William Shakespeare. For William Shakespeare, the Globe theater itself represented a place that brought together a mix of classes. People from high...