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Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe
Andrew Dickson
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Description for Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe
Hardback. 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. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
Andrew Dickson’s startlingly original and joyously entertaining Worlds Elsewhere traverses centuries and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his works in a fantastic array of new guises…
‘Extraordinarily exhilarating … like no other Shakespeare criticism you have ever read’ (Margaret Drabble) ~ ‘A tour de force by any standards’ (David Crystal) ~ ‘Revelatory’ (James Shapiro) ~ ‘Brilliantly original’ (Michael Pye)
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847922458
SKU
9781847922458
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About Andrew Dickson
Andrew Dickson is a writer and critic. He grew up in Yorkshire and studied English at Cambridge, later returning to take an MPhil in Renaissance literature, and is currently an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. A former arts editor at the Guardian, he writes regularly for the paper and has contributed to the New Yorker and the ... Read more
Reviews for Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe
Hugely enjoyable ... inspiring ... the book is a joy, full to bursting with surprising incidents, stories and insight
Dominic Gromgoole
Sunday Times
There were very few pages on which I didn’t learn something new or revelatory. A must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare’s impact on people and politics around the globe
James Shapiro, author of ... Read more
Dominic Gromgoole
Sunday Times
There were very few pages on which I didn’t learn something new or revelatory. A must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare’s impact on people and politics around the globe
James Shapiro, author of ... Read more