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Shakespeare's restless world : a portrait of an era in twenty objects / Neil MacGregor.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA356 .M226 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacGregor, Neil, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
- Elizabeth.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- England--Antiquities.
- England.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780670026340
- 0670026344
- OCLC:
- 855647533
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