That Shakespeare Life

Cassidy Cash

Booking Overview

This is a niche history and literary scholarship interview show focused on William Shakespeare’s life, works, and Renaissance-era context, typically featuring academics, authors, artists, and cultural-heritage professionals. Credible pitches include Shakespeare scholars, Renaissance historians, book authors, museum or heritage specialists, and researchers with focused expertise in early modern material culture; booking difficulty is low to medium because subject-matter relevance matters more than broad celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 454

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 2.7k subscribers

Contact Information

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cassidy@cassidycash.com

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Host

Cassidy Cash - Host focused on William Shakespeare’s life and the historical world surrounding his work.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Academic or professional expertise in Shakespeare, Renaissance or Elizabethan history, early modern culture, material culture, heritage interpretation, or a closely related subject; published authors, researchers, artists, and cultural-heritage professionals are a strong fit.

Required Achievements:

Published books or scholarly research, Leadership of a focused historical or cultural project, Professional responsibility for a significant heritage collection or site, University teaching or research in early modern history

Recent Guest Discussions

Maria Hayward - Sixteenth-century Clothing, Fashion, Identity, Status, And Self-fashioning.

Ulinka Rublack - Sixteenth-century Clothing, Fashion, Identity, Status, And Self-fashioning.

Catherine Richardson - Everyday Objects Mentioned In Shakespeare’s Plays And What They Reveal About Material Life In Shakespeare’s England.

Laura Kiel - Kronborg Castle, Its Connection To Shakespeare’s Hamlet, And Productions Staged At The Castle.

Missy Dunaway - Bird Species Referenced In Shakespeare’s Works, Historical Sources, Symbolism, And Renaissance Natural History.

Recent Topics

History, Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance History, Elizabethan England, Material Culture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

That Shakespeare Life

The Villainous Saffron Murder

October 05, 2026

We begin with one of Shakespeare's most memorable fashion jokes: Malvolio in Twelfth Night, strutting in his yellow stockings. In the play, the color is comic, even ridiculous. Malvolio believes the stockings will make him attractive and impressive, but to everyone else, they make him look foolish. Shakespeare's audience would have recognized that clothing could carry meaning, and yellow was not a neutral choice. From there, we step into the real fashion world of Jacobean England, where yello...

How Shakespeare's England Laid the Groundwork for the Witch Panics

September 28, 2026

In the decades that followed Shakepseare's death in 1616, England saw the arrival of events known as witch panics of Civil War–era Britain. It's easy to think that these witch panics and the heightened fear about witches was something that's post-Shakespeare, but the reality is that the the legal, religious, and cultural foundations were already being laid during Shakespeare's lifetime through developments such as the 1604 Witchcraft Act, King James I's ideas about demonic conspiracy, and gro...

The First Fashion Magazine of the 16th Century

September 21, 2026

Long before fashion magazines, personal style blogs, or carefully curated social media feeds, a 16th century German accountant named Matthäus Schwarz was documenting his wardrobe in extraordinary detail. Between 1520 and 1560, Schwarz commissioned artists to create more than 130 precise watercolor portraits of him on parchment, recording the clothing he wore at different stages of his life. The earliest images, painted by Narziss Renner, reconstructed Schwarz's appearance from infancy throug...

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