Worlds Elsewhere, Andrew Dickson
Worlds Elsewhere, Andrew Dickson
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Worlds Elsewhere
Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

Author: Andrew Dickson

Narrator: Andrew Dickson

Unabridged: 20 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/10/2016

Synopsis

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 Shashibiya survived Mao's Cultural Revolution to become an honored Chinese author.

Both a cultural history and a literary travelogue, the first of its kind, Worlds Elsewhere explores how Shakespeare became the world's writer, and how his works have changed beyond all recognition during the journey.

About Andrew Dickson

Andrew Dickson, a writer and theater critic, is the author of The Rough Guide to Shakespeare. He holds an MPhil in Renaissance literature from Cambridge University, and is a contributor to The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. As well as being a regular contributor to the Guardian and the BBC, he is an Honorary Fellow in the English department at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alisi ☆ wants to read too many books ☆

I really wanted to like this. Honestly. It was just way too rambling for my liking. There was almost no chapters. Maybe 5? In a book this length? It's like 500+ pages long. He just picked a section of the world and sort of rambled on and on about it, eventually coming to a point and going back and r......more

Goodreads review by Ken

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe by Andrew Dickson Andrew's self guide to world of Shakespeare’s well 5 counties at least, what follows is my quick single sentence on each place visited. Germany, specialists in keeping SP as close to the original as possible good on them U.S.A comp......more

Goodreads review by Simon

A shaggy dog of a book. Dickson meanders around the globe (no pun intended) while examining the influence of Shakespeare's work. He hits China, India, South Africa, Germany, the Baltic states, 19th century California, the Third Reich --- it is occasionally hard to follow the why of his choices, thou......more

Goodreads review by Joel

(Note: I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.) This book investigates the ways in which Shakespeare's works have been received, embraced, and reinterpreted around the globe. The author recounts his travels to places like Germany, India, and South Africa; a Shakespeare libr......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

Not quite what I was expecting. Less of a general overview, and more of a deep dip into certain places and their relationship with Shakespeare...combined with a rambling travelogue. I did enjoy it for the most part, although certain sections were much more interesting than others, particularly the l......more

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