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Book 7
This series takes an artefact, a symbol or a place and focuses in on the life and characteristics of people who lived in these times. With highly accessible text and illustrations these books show the reader exactly how people lived. Brand new covers will refresh this hugely successful series.
This series takes an artefact, a symbol or a place and focuses in on the life and characteristics of people who lived in these times. With highly accessible text and illustrations, these books show the reader exactly how people lived. Brand new covers will refresh this hugely successful series.
Describes typical features of theaters in Ancient Greece and many of the common objects used in them including armour, comic masks, papyrus rolls, and aulos.
Describes typical features of theaters in Shakespearean England and many of the common objects used in them including trumpets, hazelnuts, and helmets.
Take a look inside a theatre in ancient Greece. A poet crowned in an ivy wreath admires the play. Dancers cloaked in feathers twist and whirl, as an actor in the mask of a god falls from the heavens on a flying machine. This book describes the entertainments of the ancient Greeks through the objects found in a theatre. It contains a wealth of colour photographs, paintings and specially commissioned illustrations.
Describes life in Shakespeare's time through the actors, audience and accessories found in a theatre. It raises the curtain on a stage full of peculiar props and performers. It expands from Shakespearean theatre to look at curriculum aspects of Tudor life: leisure and entertainment, religion, war and politics.
Containing a feast of colour photos, paintings and specially commissioned illustrations, this book looks at objects found in excavations of Roman villas and describes what we know about Roman life from them. It includes objects including keys, skillets, lyres, puppets and mosaics - giving a fascinating insight into how the rich lived.