Shakespeare: staging the world
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Published to accompany a major exhibition at the British museum (19 July – 25 November 2012), part of the Cultural Olympiad and the World Shakespeare festival.
This exhibition book links historical objects and works of art with Shakespeare's texts to reveal how the playwright informed his audiences of the major events and political issues of the day: a sixteenth- century dagger fished from the Thames gives new significance to the gang violence of Romeo and Juliet; Henry V's saddle, helm and shield recall the depiction of war in the history plays; Guy Fawkes' lantern illustrates the failed gunpowder plot, later to prove the inspiration for Macbeth.
Authors
Jonathan Bate is Provost of Worcester College Oxford and formerly Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He is an internationally acclaimed author and editor, with titles including Soul of Age: the Life, Mind and Works of William Shakespeare.
Dora Thornton is curator of Renaissance Europe at the British Museum and author of many titles, including The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy. -
Product code: cmcf28245
Exhibition: Shakespeare
Authors: Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton
ISBN: PB: 9780714128245. HB: 9780714128283.
Format: Paperback with flaps or Hardback
Number of pages: 272 pages
Size: 250mm x 220mm
llustrations: 250 colour
Weight: 1.99kg
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Superb…The catalogue should be in every school library in the land. Indeed, every such library should have 20 copies in armour-plated bindings that will survive a century of careless handling. Indeed, I shall go further and suggest that every student of English literature should have his own copy and that the book should never go out of print.
Brian Sewell, Evening Standard
One of those books where you can't turn the pages fast enough.
Richard Dorment, 'Summer Reading Special', The Daily Telegraph
The objects themselves are extraordinary.
Caroline McGinn, Time Out
The book is full of illuminating wonders.
Jerry Brotton, BBC History Magazine
Stands by itself as a scholarly and enormously enjoyable portrait of an age and of the world as known to its greatest dramatist.
2012 Books of the Year column, The Spectator magazine
This beautifully illustrated historical treasure trove breathes new life into the conception of characters such as Hamlet. Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton have produced a fascinating and scholarly study of the writer and his rich range of influences.
Editor's choice, The Good Book Guide
This book gets into the very fabric of both literature and life.
Michael Kerrigan, Saturday Scotsman
Sumptuous, rigorously-researched and beautifully illustrated.
Dr. Claire Cochrane, Theatre scholar of the University of Worcester
A fine catalogue, [one] which increases the value of an outstanding, not-to-be missed exhibition.
The Lady magazine
Not only is the exhibition winning acclaim from the critics, but its catalogue has proved an impressive work of Shakespeare scholarship in itself.
The Daily Telegraph
2013-05-19
2012-01-25
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