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 | Apr 27, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
For the 16th century, a vagrant was someone who operated outside of societal norms, someone who moved around without a fixed home, or produced a profit without the oversight of a noble patron. In a culture that highly prized both hierarchy and organization,...
by CCash | Apr 13, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s Othello, the Second Senator in Act One warns of a Turkish fleet bearing down on Cyprus. Later in that same scene, the Duke of Venice remarks, “The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known...
by CCash | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Carol Chillington Rutter There are many men who lived alongside William Shakespeare in turn of the 17th century England, but today’s featured contemporary is a man who served as King James’ ambassador to Venice in the 1600s. This man was named Henry...
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...
