Cover art for Shakespeare's Restless World
Published
Penguin, June 2013
ISBN
9781846148309
Format
Softcover, 336 pages
Dimensions
22.6cm × 14.9cm × 2.4cm

Shakespeare's Restless World An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects by

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The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. 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 and dynamic era.

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