Ebook {Epub PDF} Shakespeares Restless World by Neil MacGregor

Shakespeare's restless world. MacGregor, Neil, ; BBC Radio 4; British Museum. Book. English. Published London: Allen Lane, c Available at Coleraine CC. Coleraine CC – 1 on shelf at: PRM33 Barcode Shelfmark Loan type Status. Shakespeare's Restless World Neil MacGregor introduces Shakespeare's Restless World Exploring the world of William Shakespeare through a selection of objects from his time. Filled with anecdotes and insights, eerie, funny, poignant and grotesque, Shakespeare’s Restless World is another brilliant vindication of MacGregor’s understanding of how physical objects enter deep into our fore-father’s mental and spiritual world.”Pages:

What did Elizabethan theatergoers eat while watching Hamlet? British Museum Director MacGregor (A History of the World in Objects, , etc.) answers that question and many others as he examines 20 objects, now in museums and libraries, that illuminate daily life in Shakespearean www.doorway.ru for theater snacks, researchers combing through debris buried under the Globe discovered that nuts. The ten-part Shakespeare's Restless World "looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare's audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period" — i.e., William Shakespeare's life, which spanned the s to the s: a time of Venetian glass goblets, African sunken gold, chiming clocks, and horrific relics of execution. In his surprise bestseller A History of the World in Objects, former British National Gallery director Neil MacGregor taught us to think about both history and museums in interesting, innovative ways. Now, in Shakespeare's Restless World, he demonstrates that we can still learn fascinating new things about the Stratford Bard.

In this book, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, uses a variety of material objects to get under the intellectual skin of the world during Shakespeare's life-time, and explores the ways in which the plays were deeply grounded in the politics, religion, culture and material world from which they sprang. Filled with anecdotes and insights, eerie, funny, poignant and grotesque, Shakespeare’s Restless World is another brilliant vindication of MacGregor’s understanding of how physical objects enter deep into our fore-father’s mental and spiritual world.”. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar. From knife crime to belief in witches, religious battles to the horizons of the New World, Neil MacGregor brings the past to life in a fresh, unexpected portrait of a dangerous.