by CCash | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog, Macbeth, Podcast Episodes
with Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrooke “This week, we’re dipping into the strange, the enchanted, and the eerily familiar with a sampling of the rich world of 16th-century folklore during Shakespeare’s lifetime. From medieval hares and charmed pilgrim tokens to tales of...
by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Orlando, from the play As You Like It, talks about church bells knolling, and later in that same play, the Duke talks about how we “have with holy bell been knoll’d to church.” There’s a conversation in Act II of Pericles where two fishermen discuss a parish...
by CCash | May 19, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Image of foundry and a man heating up a forge. 16th century | Source Images of Bells in Leicestershire which date to 1584 | Source 1580 frontspiece featuring an image of a man working metal | Metallurgy 16th century |Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt...
by CCash | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 100+ additional episodes of our show in the back catalog when you join us on Patreon. Sign up today and start listening at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife In his latest book, Shakespeare’s Tutor, Darren Freebury Jones explores the unsung history...
by CCash | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
That Shakespeare Life is supported in part by listeners who sign up to be our patrons. Join our listener community today. This website contains affiliate links. When I’m not recording That Shakespeare Life, I’m usually researching for DIY History, my YouTube channel...