Shakespeares Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
Description : 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 Cleopatras barge or Julius Caesars forumIn this book Neil MacGregor attempts to revisit the world of Elizabethan experience through discussions of objects including a communion cup a rapier a