Shakespeare's Restless World - 4. Life Without Elizabeth
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A portrait painted in 1571 to justify and celebrate Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor succession, by the 1590s, with no direct Tudor heir, had very different implications.
Radio 4 with a new object-based history. 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 old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England.
Programme 4. LIFE WITHOUT ELIZABETH - Painted in 1571 to justify and celebrate Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor succession, by the 1590s, with no direct Tudor heir, this image had very different implications.
Producer: Paul Kobrak.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2:15PM Thu, 11 Oct 2012
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1:45PM Thu, 19 Apr 2012
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- Duration 15 minutes
