British Museum brings the Bard back to life with blockbusting Shakespearean objects show
Although it leads you past many strange and wondrous objects, from a bear's skull to a Jesuit's eye and a unicorn's horn, the British Museum's Shakespeare show begins and ends with a book. As you enter the old Reading Room, to the recorded sounds of London streets, the playwright's engraving from a First Folio of 1623 greets you with its enigmatic stare " and not just any First Folio, but a particularly fine copy tha…