Shakespeares Restless World

When you go to a museum and you look an old object, you can read a brief label about it. But in an ideal museum you would be able to read an entire essay about how an object was used and what it meant in the context of the culture of its time.

The objects discussed in relation to Shakespeare's era, include a peddler's chest which a priest would have used to 'peddle' Catholicism around the country and a two pronged iron fork excavated from London's Rose Theatre. MacGreggor weaves a tale of 'everydayness' around the objects, bringing the late 1500's and early 1600's to life.

This text gives us the flavour of Shakespeare''s times and places. A superbly informative and entertaining book which will be of grat use to teachers and students of Shakepeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays.