Shakespeare's Pants
A Shakespeare scholar talks to actual clever people about what normal domestic activity was like during the life and times of William Shakespeare. Partly informative, and mostly fun, the series aims to shed some light on the lesser discussed aspects of early modern life in England, namely poo, pants, passion and other such ponderings. Written, hosted, edited and produced by Anjna Chouhan.
Please contact me via e-mail: anjna@shakespearespants.com
Shakespeare's Pants
Episode One Teaser
A snippet of the first episode of Shakespeare's Pants, on the subjects of washing and bathing.
Anjna Chouhan
This is physician William Vaughan in 1600.
Actor
Cold and natural baths are greatly expedient for men subject to rheums, dropsies, and gouts. Neither can I easily express in words how much good cold baths do bring unto them that use them. Howbeit with this caveat I commend baths to wit, that no man distempered through venery, gluttony, watching, fasting or through violent exercise, presume to enter into them.