Shakespeare's Restless World - 8. City Life, Urban Strife
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The life of London's apprentices and Shakespeare's groundlings are told through a rare woollen cap.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues his 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 8. CITY LIFE, URBAN STRIFE - The life of London's apprentices and Shakespeare's groundlings told through a rare woollen cap.
Producer: Paul Kobrak.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2:15PM Wed, 17 Oct 2012
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1:45PM Wed, 25 Apr 2012
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- Duration 15 minutes
