Shakespeare's Restless World

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Making a selection of objects from the British Museum and collections across the UK, Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories they tell about Shakespeare's world.

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Shakespeare's Restless World

Episodes (20)

May 11, 2012 20. Shakespeare Goes Global
May 10, 2012 19. The Theatres of Cruelty
May 9, 2012 18. London Becomes Rome

Shakespeare's Restless World

May 11, 2012
14 minutes
13 MB

The publication of the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays in 1623 began the process of turning an early modern playwright into a global phenomenon. An annotated copy of the Collected Works of Shakespeare reveals the extent to which Shakespeare has inspired and influenced audiences across the globe and through the ages. Object-based history series presented by Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum. Taking artefacts from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they lived. With...

Shakespeare's Restless World

20. Shakespeare Goes Global

BBC Radio 4 Extra

00:00 -13:50