Shakespeare’s Restless World: Snacking Through Shakespeare

Synopsis: Third of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences made sense of their rapidly changing environment. In this episode MacGregor uses a fork discovered at the site of the Rose Theatre in London to help explain what Elizabethan theatregoers liked to eat while watching plays.
Series: Shakespeare’s Restless World
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Apr 2012 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration: 15 mins

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: As You Like It; Henry V; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Merry Wives of Windsor, The; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II; Twelfth Night
Subjects: Drama; History
Keywords: food; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Cultural history

Notes: The entire series is available on CD from http://www.bbcshop.com and as a podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4shakespeare.
History: Part of the Shakespeare Unlocked season on BBC.
Reviews: Source: Radio Times, BBC programme information
For more detail about the programme and its objects (including transcript) see the BBC Restless world website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/shakespeares-restless-world/ (accessed May 2012)

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