by CCash | Jan 19, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Paul Lockhart When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, he gave the melancholy Dane two university friends with peculiarly Danish names—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. For many centuries, audiences assumed these were simply fictional creations. Yet history reveals that...
by CCash | Sep 29, 2025 | Podcast Episodes
with Chloe Houston and Mark Hutchings “What, think You we are Turks or infidels?”— Richard III Act III, Scene iv When Shakespeare wrote Othello, he cast the Ottoman Empire as a looming threat—an enemy powerful enough to demand England’s attention. Yet...
by CCash | Aug 18, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Andrea Zuvich “I think this be the most villanous house in all London road for fleas…” – Henry IV Part I (II.1) So complains one of Shakespeare’s characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor, voicing what was surely a common frustration in the...
by CCash | Aug 18, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Emily Winerock From the lively galliard to the intimate volta, dancing was more than entertainment—it was a statement of identity, politics, and even resistance. In the world Shakespeare inhabited, dance could reveal your rank, signal your intentions in...
by CCash | Aug 4, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In King Lear, Shakespeare gives us the haunting line, “Break, heart; I prithee, break!”—a cry of grief so intense it seems to carry physical weight. And indeed, it might. Today, doctors recognize Takotsubo Syndrome, or “broken heart syndrome,” a condition where...
