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

MacGregor, Neil

ISBN 10: 0670026344 / ISBN 13: 9780670026340

Published by Viking, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670026344
• ISBN 13: 9780670026340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

At the beginning of Henry V Shakespeare asked his audience to 'Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts': but what mental world did the Elizabethans draw on to fill out the 'vasty fields of France', Cleopatra's barge or Julius Caesar's forum? In this book, Neil MacGregor attempts to revisit the world of Elizabethan experience through discussions of objects including a communion cup, a rapier, a pedlar's trunk and a holy relic - travelling 'through the charisma of things, to a past world'. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

About the Author

Neil MacGregor has been the director of the British Museum since 2002; prior to that, he was the director of the National Gallery in London. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller A History of the World in 100 Objects.