Shakespeare’s Restless World: London Becomes Rome

Synopsis: Eighteenth 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 looks at a set of designs for James I’s coronation procession in a book published in 1604 called The Arches of Triumph, a sort of souvenir guide of the day, to investigate the extent of classical knowledge amongst Shakespeare’s audience.
Series: Shakespeare’s Restless World
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 9 May 2012 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration: 15 mins

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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