Shakespeare: Staging the World, British Museum, London

The skull of a bear that died in a baiting session " the dog tooth marks still visible centuries later " is just one reminder that in Shakespeare's world the division between civilisation and savagery was far slimmer than today. Now, newspaper headlines fret about gun-toting gang culture, but in the first Elizabethan era few educated gentlemen were to be seen without a rapier and dagger, and " as the exhibition comme…

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