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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MacGregor is not a man for making airy generalisations about the past. He examines concrete evidence and like a Sherlock Holmes teases out of it more information than you would think possible to deduce -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail * Shakespeare's Restless World, filled with anecdotes and insights, eerie, funny, poignant and grotesque, is another brilliant vindication of MacGregor's understanding of physical objects to enter deep into our fore-fathers' mental and spiritual world -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *
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Chapter One England Goes Global |
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Chapter Two Communion and Conscience |
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Chapter Three Snacking Through Shakespeare |
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Chapter Four Life Without Elizabeth |
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Chapter five Swordplay and Swagger |
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Chapter six Europe: Triumphs of the Past |
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Chapter Seven Ireland: Failures in the Present |
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Chapter Eight City Life, Urban Strife |
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Chapter Nine New Science, Old Magic |
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Chapter Ten Toil and Trouble |
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Chapter Eleven Treason and Plots |
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Chapter Twelve Sex and the City |
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Chapter Thirteen From London to Marrakesh |
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Chapter Fourteen Disguise and Deception |
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Chapter Fifteen The Flag That Failed |
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Chapter Sixteen A Time of Change, a Change of Time |
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Chapter Seventeen Plague and the Playhouse |
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Chapter Eighteen London Becomes Rome |
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Chapter Nineteen The Theatres of Cruelty |
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Chapter Twenty Shakespeare Goes Global |
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| List of Lead Objects |
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| Bibliography |
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| References |
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| Picture Credits |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015, and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin from 2015 to 2018. His previous books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation, all available in Penguin and now between them translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2010, he was made a member of the Order of Merit, the UK's highest civil honour. In 2015 he was awarded the Goethe Medal and the German National Prize. In 2018 the radio series Living with the Gods received the Sandford Saint Martin Award for Religious Broadcasting.
