Buy this book on-line MacGREGOR, NEIL: : Shakespeare's Restless WorldLONDON.ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN GROUP,2012. ISBN 9781846146756.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 0 0 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, blush pink background with silver gilt decorated border design,with white and silver gilt letters illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain mauve endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvipp+3-320pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,an introduction,20 chapters,profuse colour+b/w contemporary reproductions of illustrations,contemporary colour photographs etc.,List of objects,a bibliography,references,picture credits,
acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
William Shakespeare lived through a pivotal period in human history.
With the discovery of the New World,the horizons of Old Europe had expanded dramatically,long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. What ideas and assumptions did Londoners bring with them when they went to see Shakespeare's plays in the 1590s and 1600s? What were they thinking? What was it like living in a world so radically different from anything their parents had experienced?
'Shakespeare's Restless World' uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects to re-create Shakespeare's world and the minds of his audiences.The objects range from the rich (such as the hoard of gold coins that make up the Salcombe treasure) to the very humble,like a worker's woollen cap.
Each one of them allows MacGregor to explore one of the themes which defines the Shakespearean age - globalization,reformation, plague,Islam,magic and many others.
MacGregor weaves Shakespeare's words themselves into the histories of the objects to suggest where Shakespeare's ideas about religion,
national identity,the history of England and the world and human nature itself may have come from.The resultis an excitingly fresh and unexpected portrait of Shakespeare's dangerous and dynamic world.
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