by CCash | Aug 12, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
It is a frequent misconception that people from Shakespeare’s lifetime believed the world was flat. In fact, the publication of the world on a spherical globe was not only well established across Europe by Shakespeare’s lifetime, but there are numerous portraits...
by CCash | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
This post contains affiliate links. Please support our show by becoming a patron. Welcome to Episode 203 of That Shakespeare Life In Shakespeare’s Pericles, the character Thasia gives birth on a ship at sea and, dying in childbirth, is thrown overboard in her coffin...
by CCash | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
When medieval cartographers drew maps of the world they included mermaids among the fantastic ocean beasts that they believed roamed the waters of foreign lands. Professional explorers like Henry Hudson in 1608, described sighting a mermaid in the Northern Atlantic...
