Shakespeare’s Restless World | 19: The Theatres of Cruelty

Duration: 13'33''

Synopsis

Neil MacGregor uses artefacts to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense of their world. Today: a human eyeball in a silver setting provides an insight to theatre of cruelty.

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