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Shakespeare’s Restless World: Swordplay and Swagger

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
Transmission details
20 Apr 2012 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration
15 mins

Credits

Producer
Paul Kobrak
Contributor
Alison de Burgh; Neil MacGregor; Toby Capwell

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Plays
Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet
Subjects
Drama; History
Keywords
customs; 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.
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

Name

BoB

Email
bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
Web
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Phone
020 3743 2345
Address
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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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London
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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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London
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