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Shakespeare - Dr Dee's Magical Mirror
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April 26, 2012
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 The mirror features in Radio 4's series, Shakespeare's Restless World. Find out more about the objects and programmes here
Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor examines Dr John Dee's Mirror in the British Museum.
An Aztec mirror from Mexico isn't necessarily the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about Shakespeare's world. But this obsidian disc reveals something about 16th-century England and the level to which beliefs in ghosts and spirits still persisted.
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