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🐖🐕🐻 Did Shakespeare really use real animals in his plays?From strange sounds to stage blood and even bears, Elizabethan ...
09/06/2025

🐖🐕🐻 Did Shakespeare really use real animals in his plays?

From strange sounds to stage blood and even bears, Elizabethan theaters had more creatures than you might expect.

Here are 3 surprising facts about animals in Shakespeare’s playhouse — watch the episode to learn them all 👉 https://youtu.be/GpPiHsx9nm4

Probably my most famous Shakespeare Castle on the list I’m working through. Can you guess which one from the line drawin...
09/05/2025

Probably my most famous Shakespeare Castle on the list I’m working through. Can you guess which one from the line drawing? Hint: it’s still standing today and in active use.

Next is my favorite part- painting! 👩‍🎨🎨

"European hats—especially those worn by fashionable young men—often featured peacock, ostrich, or heron feathers as symb...
09/05/2025

"European hats—especially those worn by fashionable young men—often featured peacock, ostrich, or heron feathers as symbols of masculinity and flair.” - John Kuhn | Check out the elaborate feathered plumage on this hat behind Sir Thomas Dale (c. 1615) http://www.cassidycash.com/ep385

There's well over 20 period portraits, artifacts, illustrations, and more all about feathers, shops that sold plummage, ...
09/03/2025

There's well over 20 period portraits, artifacts, illustrations, and more all about feathers, shops that sold plummage, and the fancy hats that accessorized with them in Shakespeare's lifetime. Join us inside the detailed show notes to see all the insider extras. https://www.patreon.com/posts/135485598

It's time for Weird Word Wednesday and this week, we're swearing Shakespeare-style. (Gasp!) The word "s'wounds" was stro...
09/03/2025

It's time for Weird Word Wednesday and this week, we're swearing Shakespeare-style. (Gasp!) The word "s'wounds" was strong offensive language in the 16th century, and today we're exploring why that was so alarming when Hamlet uses it on stage. https://youtu.be/hi9i_dG3LZY

You could buy feathers all over London in shops that sold them, and prepared feathers, for accessorizing hats and other ...
09/02/2025

You could buy feathers all over London in shops that sold them, and prepared feathers, for accessorizing hats and other clothing. http://www.cassidycash.com/ep385

NEW EPISODE: Explore the feathered costumes seen on the early modern stage, revealing how these theatrical elements were...
09/01/2025

NEW EPISODE: Explore the feathered costumes seen on the early modern stage, revealing how these theatrical elements were tied to artistic labor, conquest, and the shaping of cultural identity, with Dr. John Kuhn. http://www.cassidycash.com/ep385

Before they understood the flea's role in spreading plague, plague prevention including fumigating using torches like th...
08/29/2025

Before they understood the flea's role in spreading plague, plague prevention including fumigating using torches like this one. Science would learn later why that was helpful--the fumigation likely helped remove the fleas. http://www.cassidycash.com/ep384

Fleas may have been common, but they could still infest a building, which made for just as much of a headache then as no...
08/28/2025

Fleas may have been common, but they could still infest a building, which made for just as much of a headache then as now, as is reflected in this illustration. It makes me itch just to look at them. http://www.cassidycash.com/ep384

If you'd like to see period illustrations of fleas, scientific manuals describing the flea, and paintings of people deal...
08/27/2025

If you'd like to see period illustrations of fleas, scientific manuals describing the flea, and paintings of people dealing with (frustratedly!) the infestation of fleas, then join us as a member inside the Detailed Show Notes where you can explore all the extras. Sign up here: http://www.cassidycash.com/ep384

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