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3. Snacking Through Shakespeare

A fork discovered on the site of the Rose Theatre shows what people ate in the William Shakespeare鈥檚 turbulent time. From 2012.

Object-based history series presented by Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum.

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.

Producer: Paul Kobrak

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in April 2012.

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15 minutes

Last on

Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:15

Transcript

Read a transcript of this programme:聽Shakespeare's Restless World /聽Snacking through Shakespeare

Broadcasts

  • Wed 18 Apr 2012 13:45
  • Wed 18 Apr 2012 19:45
  • Wed 10 Oct 2012 14:15
  • Wed 11 Mar 2015 14:15
  • Thu 12 Mar 2015 00:15
  • Wed 15 Jun 2016 13:45
  • Wed 18 Apr 2018 14:15
  • Thu 19 Apr 2018 02:15
  • Wed 18 Oct 2023 07:15
  • Wed 18 Oct 2023 12:15
  • Wed 18 Oct 2023 17:15
  • Thu 19 Oct 2023 02:15

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