Neil MacGregor
Birth date: June 16, 1946
Neil MacGregor's Books
Recently added on shelves
Share this Author
Preface: Mission ImpossibleIntroduction: Signals from the Past--A History of the World in 100 ObjectsMapsList of ObjectsBibliographyReferencesText AcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsIndex
bookshelves: nonfiction, history, germany, autumn-2014, published-2014 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from September 26 to October 15, 2014 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwckbDescription: Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, begins his series examining 600 years ...
I really enjoyed this book--I learned a lot about the period and I picked up some new vocabulary words as well. There were great stories in this book, and the last chapter in particular was extremely poignant. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in history, Shakespeare, or theatre.
I admit I skimmed a lot of this book. It is, after all, 700 pages long. But I read many of the entries and if I had more time and/or I was planning a trip to London to see the British Museum, I would certainly delve deeper because the writing is lively and engaging and the objects he chose to write ...
I visited the British Museum recently. Due to the shortage of time, I decided to take the one-hour tour suggested by the brochure: a visit to ten objects separated across various galleries, spanning historical space and time. Even though it was a good introduction, and gave me a taste of the museu...
Log in with Facebook 
![By Neil MacGregor Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era [Paperback] - Neil MacGregor](http://booklikes.com/photo/max/150/0/upload/books/7/5/75c8d31e3da3fb70f50a4c37f8d4d976.jpg)
