Double, double, toil, and trouble....
Fire burn and podcast bubble....
What?? Never mind.
It's Halloween!!! Samhaim!!! All Hallows Eve!!! And our boy Will has magic and witches and ghosts and demons and premonitions and precognitions and dreams and all kinds of freaky shit literally sprinkled throughout his plays. In this episode, we discuss some of the history that influenced Shakespeare's writing as well as some conjecture about which witch is which in many of his plays.
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Episode Sources:
Rogers, L.W., The Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays - A study of the Occult, First Edition 1907
Brigg, K.M., Pale Hecate's Team, Humanities Press, 1962
Kahan, Jeffrey, Shakespiritualism: Shakespeare and the Occult, 1850 - 1950, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Titland, Freia M., Magic and Shakespeare: A Representation of the Times, Presented to the Faculty of Regent University for Master of Fine Arts
Mebane, John S., Renaissance Magic & the Return of the Golden Age, University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Long, Tom, The Book of Traditional Magickal Plants and Herbs, Archan Publishing, 2019
