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Shakespeare's Restless World
Neil MacGregor
A Portrait Of An Era In Twenty Objects
Viking
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 0670026344
EAN: 9780670026340
Kindle: B00C1N5WP2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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
focus
We 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, bring us
twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare’s
universe. A perfect complement to A History of the World
in 100 Objects, MacGregor’s landmark New York
Times bestseller, Shakespeare’s Restless World
highlights a turning point in human history.
This
magnificent book, illustrated throughout with more than one
hundred vibrant color photographs, invites you to travel
back in history and to touch, smell, and feel what life was
like at that pivotal moment, when humankind leaped into the
modern age. This was an exhilarating time when discoveries
in science and technology altered the parameters of the
known world. Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation map allows
us to imagine the age of exploration from the point of view
of one of its most ambitious navigators. A bishop’s cup
captures the most sacred and divisive act in
Christendom.
With A History of the World in 100
Objects, MacGregor pioneered a new way of telling
history through artifacts. Now he trains his eye closer to
home, on a subject that has mesmerized him since childhood,
and lets us see Shakespeare and his world in a whole new light.
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