by CCash | Apr 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Text on this page is a rough transcript from our interview (unless otherwise noted). Details under the images are related to the picture or artifact and are not reflective of any comments by the guest. Paper Was Made From Linen In a word—rags. If the paper was meant...
by CCash | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
“Get me the ink and paper.” Cleopatra demands in Antony and Cleopatra (I.5) In Henry IV Part I, Peto says “Nothing but papers, my lord.” (II.4) These are just two of over 100 references to paper in Shakespeare’s plays, with characters reading papers, carrying...
by CCash | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus says “Here’s too small a pasture for such store of muttons.” Proteus is speaking metaphorically here, but the phrase refers to the relationship between animals raised in a field, and then processed for...
by CCash | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog, Macbeth, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare made the three witch sisters famous in his play, Macbeth, by showcasing their manipulative power, incantations, and their famous pot of double double toil and trouble. While this version of witches makes for a fun spoof at Halloween parties today, when...
by CCash | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare talks about unbuttoning your sleeve in As You Like It, King Lear undoes a button in Act V of that play, and Moth talks about making a buttonhole lower in Love’s Labour’s Lost. We’ve talked about clothes here on the show previously, but what about the...
