
Worlds Elsewhere
Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Dickson
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Andrew Dickson
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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....
Antiapartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before. From the 16th-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' 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.
©2015 Andrew Dickson (P)2016 Random House AudiobooksIf you think that even in the English speaking world we don't modify the plays to suit the audience then you are mistaken. Every stage play or motion picture edits and adapts their performance to their audience.
A pure understanding of the original plays are only to be found in the reading and understanding of the original text. Basically the best interpreter of Shakespeare is the human ear.
Sit back and enjoy this book. One tip to a proper reading is to get a hard copy of the book and read it in tandem with the Audible version.
Nothing is sacred
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