by CCash | Sep 28, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In the decades that followed Shakespeare’s death in 1616, England saw the arrival of events known as witch panics of Civil War–era Britain. It’s easy to think that these witch panics and the heightened fear about witches was something that’s post-Shakespeare,...
by CCash | Sep 21, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Long before fashion magazines, personal style blogs, or carefully curated social media feeds, a 16th century German accountant named Matthäus Schwarz was documenting his wardrobe in extraordinary detail. Between 1520 and 1560, Schwarz commissioned artists...
by CCash | Aug 10, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
With it estimated that travel from Stratford Upon Avon to London might take days or even weeks depending on the weather and mode of transportation, it’s only logical to think that Shakespeare must have had a place to stay when he was in London for...
by CCash | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Hamlet wagers 6 Barbary horses against 6 French swords. Falstaff talks about fighting with a Barbary hen. Bassanio in Merchant of Venice talks about travelling merchants going to foreign lands including “Tripolis, Mexico and England, Lisbon, Barbary, and India” There...
by CCash | May 25, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, he uses the word “gauntlet” a total of 6 times. In one instance, the stage directions declare that a character “throws down his gauntlet.” In Hamlet, stage directions again refer to a gauntlet by saying that attendants bring “foils...
