When Does a Lie Become a Weapon? Leadership and Othello
Shakespeare's plays Othello and Much Ado About Nothing start with the same storyline: someone tells a lie about a relationship that threatens an entire community. But when does the lie become a weapon...
25 Kesä 42min
The Little World: Tudor & Stuart England with Nandini Das (ep 250)
Tudor and Stuart England is sometimes considered "a scepter'd isle," as Shakespeare put it--proudly alone. But in fact, the history is much more complicated. Nandini Das explores how small and interco...
17 Kesä 47min
Mary Tudor, Erasmus, and Tudor Continental Impact with Amy McElroy (ep 249)
Amy McElroy Substack: The Tudor Notebook with Rebecca Batley https://amymcelroy.substack.com/p/welcome @amymcelroy on Substack @amymcelroy_author on Instagram Books: Desiderius Erasmus (2026), Mary Tu...
3 Kesä 58min
Power, Praise, and Pressure: How King Lear Gets it Wrong (ep 248)
In this episode of the Royals, Rebels, and Romantics Leadership Series, Carol Ann examines Shakespeare's King Lear as a cautionary tale. Instead of behaving as a leader, Lear behaves as a bully, grasp...
27 Touko 26min
The Story of Anne Boleyn's Hands with Helene Harrison (ep 247)
From the time she burst onto the stage of the royal court in 1522, people have been debating what Anne Boleyn looked like. Recent discoveries about portraits created in the reign of her daughter shed ...
20 Touko 1h 4min
Hamnet Times Four: Experiencing the Book, Movie, Play, and Audio Book (ep 245)
Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet has captured the attention of the world, focusing on Shakespeare's family. The importance of Agnes (Anne) Hathaway Shakespeare and the death of son Hamnet changed the family....
22 Huhti 52min
Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble: Scottish Witches with Mary Craig (244)
Macbeth begins ominously: "Enter three witches." What did Scottish people believe about witches? Historian and author Mary Craig joins Royals, Rebels, and Romantics to explain. Show Notes: Mary Crai...
8 Huhti 49min
