Episode 65: Who were Shakespeare's Siblings? with David Kathman

07/15/19 • 26 min

William Shakespeare grew up functioning as the oldest of his five siblings, with his parents losing two children before William was born. The stories of his brothers and sisters are brief, but as you might expect from the life of William Shakespeare, they are full of intrigue, mystery, and mirth. Here today to share with us the stories of Shakespeare siblings is our guest, David Kathman.

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Episode 64: Elisa Tersigni and The History of Cookery, Kitchens, and Food in Shakespeare's Plays

When it comes to Food in Shakespeare's England, there were superstitions, recipes, kitchens, and even cooking methods attached to the metaphors Shakespeare intended when he used food references in his works.

All of this effusive history behind food in early modern England is at the heart of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s latest project caled Before Farm to Table. Our guest this week Elisa Tersigni, the Digital Research Fellow for "Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures", and she joins us today to share what’s going on at The Folger with this new project, and how we can better understand Shakespeare as a result of what they discovered.

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Episode 66: Shakespeare's Death with Darren Freebury Jones

When William Shakespeare died in Stratford Upon Avon England in 1616, the world lost an incredible soul that would far outlast his 52 years. But how did the greatest playwright die? And why was he not buried alongside other great playwrights of his stature at Westminster Abbey? Here to take us back to 1616 and walk us through the myths, the legend and the facts about Shakespeare's death is our guest Darren Freebury Jones.