Worlds Elsewhere

Dickson, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1847923429 / ISBN 13: 9781847923424

Published by Random House Export Editions, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Worlds Elsewhere
• Publisher: Random House Export Editions
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847923429
• ISBN 13: 9781847923424
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.

From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s plays appear at the most fascinating of times and in the most unexpected of places. No other writer’s work has been performed, translated, adapted and altered in such a remarkable variety of cultures and languages. But what is it about William Shakespeare – a man from Warwickshire who never once set foot outside England – that has made him at home in so many places around the globe?

Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Andrew Dickson takes us on a personal journey rich in insight and surprise. We enter the air-conditioned vault deep beneath Capitol Hill where the world’s largest collection of First Folios is stored; discover the shadowy history of Joseph Goebbels’s obsession with Shakespeare; and uncover the true story behind the scuffed edition in which Nelson Mandela and fellow Robben Island prisoners inscribed their names. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is – and why.

About the Author

Andrew Dickson is the author of The Rough Guide to Shakespeare and a contributor to The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. A former arts editor at the Guardian, he writes regularly for the paper and appears as a presenter for the BBC and elsewhere.

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