Books written by Dora Thornton

Shakespeare's Britain

From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeareâ__s audience â__ revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations ...

Shakespeare: Staging the World

Originally published: London, England: British Museum Press, 2012.

The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

This book is an account of the Renaissance Italian study and its contents.

A Rothschild Renaissance: The Waddesdon Bequest

A sumptuously illustrated book presenting the highlights of Renaissance court treasures, bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898.

The Brooch Unpinned: The Goldsmiths' Company Collection 1961-2021

Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy

This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called fine arts--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and ...

Supporting Contemporary Makers: Acquisitions for the Goldsmiths' Company Collection 2020-2021

Supporting Contemporary Makers: Acquisitions for the Goldsmiths' Company Collection 2019-2020

Shakespeare: Staging the World

This is a superb volume, one that will have pride of place on my bookshelf." -Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599 and Contested Will

Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection

A superb catalogue of the British Museum collection of maiolica and other Italian Renaissance pottery, published in two volumes with a slipcase, ribbon and cloth binding. The British Museum collection...

A Royal Renaissance Treasure and Its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt

At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance and one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the Jewel House of Henry VIII.

Shakespeare: Staging the World

This text shows what these audiences were finding out about the world through the eyes of the playwright Dora Thornton.

A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

The collection was accumulated by Baron Ferdinand and by his father, Baron Anselm, and was intended to rival those put together by rulers and princes from the Renaissance onwards.