Shakespeare’s Restless World | 5: Swordplay and Swagger
Neil MacGregor uses artefacts to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense of their world. Today, he illustrates extent of violence in Elizabethan London - both onstage and off.
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- Type: Factual
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 13'22''
- Broadcast date: 2012
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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