by CCash | Jun 9, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
The following slides and images are from Dr. Tiffany Stern’s presentation on puppets for the University of Birmingham in March of 2025. Dr. Stern provided this presentation to me for use in connection with this episode. All credit for the slides belongs to Dr....
by CCash | Jun 9, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare wrote his play Hamlet in the early 1600s and by the late 1600s, well after the death of William Shakespeare in 1616, playing troupes are taking plays including Shakespeare’s Hamlet and other works by early modern playwrights, and turning them into...
by CCash | Feb 24, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
With all the death in Shakespeare’s works, you may not be shocked that the word “Funeral” comes up in Shakespeare’s plays over 20 times, but what is surprising is that funeral ceremonies are used by Shakespeare in multiple plays to serve a specific role, almost a...
by CCash | Feb 24, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fortinbras orders an elaborate military funeral for Hamlet. I’ve read that Sir Philip Sydney’s actual funeral in 1587 might have been the inspiration behind this scene in the play. Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, After Antonis Mor (1519–1575)...
by CCash | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
The Curtain Theatre was built in 1577 in a section of London called Shoreditch. Constructed only about 200 yards, or 600 feet, away from The Theater, which is the building James and Richard Burbage built as the first purpose built theater in London. For context, this...
