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Shakespeare, a Man of His Day

Summary/Abstract: The curators of the Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition (at the British Museum in London, 19 VII – 25 XI 2012), Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton, made the exposition’s leitmotif “Soul of the Age”, drawing attention to the contextual realities of Shakespeare’s epoch, which became part of his plays. The exhibition was divided into several sections: London during the writer’s day, the reign of Elizabeth I and the Tudors, Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies and individual plays. Designing the exposition in this manner enabled it to achieve the aim set by its organisers: “to inform the wider public about important historical, moral and social phenomena, previously familiar almost exclusively to specialists, which William Shakespeare’s oeuvre mirrored and from which it grew.

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