Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects

Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects by MacGregor, Neil. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670026340.

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 forum? In this book, Neil MacGregor attempts to revisit the world of Elizabethan experience through discussions of objects including a communion cup, a rapier, a pedlars trunk and a holy relic - travelling through the charisma of things, to a past world. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.