Tudor Time Machine Word of the Week 29, ’Philosophatrix’

Tudor Time Machine Podcast

29-04-2023 • 7 mins

Philadelphia opines that she enjoys that her queen, Elizabeth I, is a fine ’philosophatrix’. Jessica and Gage discuss the use of the word in a play that celebrates the 'virgin queen' and the perils of love, John Lyly’s 'Sappho and Phao'.