Episode #010: Interview with Hazel Forsyth about finding Shakespearean Shoes at The Rose Theater

Hazel Forsyth, Senior Curator of the Medieval and Post-Medieval Collections at the Museum of London, joins us today to discuss a 2009 archeological find done by the Museum of London where they discovered, among other evidence of theater life in the 17th century, a set of period shoes near the site of the old Rose Theater, dating to within Shakespeare's lifetime. While the shoes themselves have now been moved into the archives at the Museum of London, at the time they were displayed they were part of a small collection of shoes and artifacts like hazelnuts which were possibly worn by Shakespearean actors at The Rose, and the hazelnut shells have their own theater connection as well. The remarkable find is allowing archaeologists and historians to piece together some of the history of Shakespeare's time period.