Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

✍ Scribed by Dickson, Andrew

• Book ID: 108971869
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 479 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780805097351

✦ Synopsis

A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare - the first book of its kind

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****There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays-more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high-school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English.

Why did this happen-and how? Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere is an eye-opening account of how Shakespeare went global. Seizing inspiration from the playwright's own fascination with travel, foreignness and distant worlds, Dickson takes us on an extraordinary journey-from Hamlet performed by English actors tramping through Poland in the early 1600s to twenty-first century Shanghai, where...