by CCash | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, there’s a famous banquet scene, with a huge food spread and of course, a few ghosts because what’s a party without a few spectres, right? This scene is fictional, but it is based on a real historical person, the real King Macbeth of...
by CCash | Mar 24, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes, Macbeth
The real King Macbeth was nicknamed the Red King and reigned in Scotland from 1040 to 1057. He ruled during a time of Scottish history known as the Kingdom of Alba. Political centres in Scotland in the early Middle Ages | Author: Angus McLellan, source: Modified by me...
by CCash | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
After the image of William Shakespeare himself, perhaps the most famous objects associated with William Shakespeare has to be the quill pen, but was this pen actually made of goose feathers, and if so, how was it made? Of course the quill pen is far from the only use...
