Shakespeare’s Restless World: The Theatres of Cruelty
- Synopsis
- Penultimate episode in 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 reliquary containing the right eye of Catholic priest Edward Oldcorne, who was executed in 1606, to provide an insight into a world where violence and bloody spectacles were part of everyday life.
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 10 May 2012 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
- Duration
- 15 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
- Contributor
- Jan Graffius; Neil MacGregor
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama; History
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); violence; Cultural history
Notes
- 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.
- General
- There are seven Shakespeare plays in which the stage directions include someone entering with a severed head.
- 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)
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Archive
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- 020 3743 2345
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How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Shakespeare’s Restless World: The Theatres of Cruelty". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av74152 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)