Did Shakespeare Smoke Tobacco? (New on YouTube)

Did Shakespeare Smoke Tobacco? (New on YouTube)

When Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco over to England in the late 1500s, he tried to get Elizabeth I to try it. She must have liked it because the small little plant took off in popularity, being smoked, raised, farmed, harvested, and used both medicinally and...
Special Effects at The Globe Theater

Special Effects at The Globe Theater

Shakespeare's plays were minimally staged compared to today's high tech and computerized environments, but the creativity that was used to create scenes with devils, ghosts, witches, battlefields, and more was pure theater magic. Called a “quaint device”...