Shakespeare's restless world
By: Neil MacGregor
Contributors: British Museum; BBC Radio 4; Royal Shakespeare Company
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780670026340
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Material culture; English literature; Miscellanea; Early modern; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Antiquities; Civilization; Intellectual life; Social conditions; History
Description: In this 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, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
Notes: "The British Museum."

"BBC Radio 4."

Reprint. Originally published: London : Penguin, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : inside the Wooden O; title: England goes global; title: Communion and conscience; title: Snacking through Shakespeare; title: Life without Elizabeth; title: Swordplay and swagger; title: Europe : triumphs of the past; title: Ireland : failures in the present; title: City life, urban strife; title: New science, old magic; title: Toil and trouble; title: Treason and plots; title: Sex and the city; title: From London to Marrakesh; title: Disguise and deception; title: The flag that failed; title: A time of change, a change of time; title: Plague and the playhouse; title: London becomes Rome; title: The theatres of cruelty; title: Shakespeare goes global.