Shakespeare’s Restless World: Swordplay and Swagg

Synopsis

Fifth 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 talks to Alison de Burgh, Britain’s first female theatre fight director, and Toby Capwell, curator of arms at the Wallace collection who explain how rapiers and daggers from Shakespeare’s time were used and how this illustrates the extent of the violence in Elizabethan London - both on and off the stage.

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

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.

Subjects

Drama; History

Keywords

customs; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); violence; Cultural history

Credits

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Contributor

Alison de Burgh; Neil MacGregor; Toby Capwell

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

BoB

Email

bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk

Web

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Phone

020 3743 2345

Address

Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
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London
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Notes

Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email

listening@bl.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7412 7676

Fax

020 7412 7441

Address

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Name

Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service

Email

services@bufvc.ac.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7393 1514

Fax

020 7393 1555

Address

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