Shakespeare's Restless World A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects

Name: Shakespeare's Restless World A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
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ISBN: 9780670026340

ISBN-10: 0670026344

ISBN-13: 9780670026340

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Authors: Neil MacGregor

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The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focusWe feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. They are so vital, so alive and real that we can see aspects of ourselves in them. But their world was at once familiar and nothing like our own.In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC,…

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List price: $36.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782

Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, FSA (born on June 16, 1946, in Glasgow, Scotland) is an art historian and museum director. He was the Editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, the Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, and was appointed Director of the British Museum in 2002. He has presented three television series on art and the radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects, which aired in 2010.



Introduction: Inside the Wooden O



England Goes Global



Communion and Conscience



Snacking Through Shakespeare



Life Without Elizabeth



Swordplay and Swagger



Europe: Triumphs of the Past



Ireland: Failures in the Present



City Life, Urban Strife



New Science, Old Magic



Toil and Trouble



Treason and Plots



Sex and the City



From London to Marrakesh



Disguise and Deception



The Flag That Failed



A Time of Change, a Change of Time



Plague and the Playhouse



London Becomes Rome



The Theatres of Cruelty



Shakespeare Goes Global


List of Lead Objects


Bibliography


References


Picture Credits


Acknowledgements


Index