A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world; and how the world became fascinated with ShakespeareRanging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years; Worlds Elsewhere is an eye-opening account of how Shakespeare went global. Seizing inspiration from the playwrightrsquo;s own fascination with travel; foreignness; and distant worldsmdash;worlds Shakespeare never himself exploredmdash;Andrew Dickson takes us on an extraordinary journey: from Hamlet performed by English actors tramping through the Baltic states in the early sixteen hundreds to the skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Beijing and Shanghai; where ldquo;Shashibiyardquo; survived Maorsquo;s Cultural Revolution to become a revered Chinese author.En route; Dickson traces Nazi Germanyrsquo;s strange love affair with; and attempted nationalization of; the Bard; and delves deep into the history of Bollywood; where Shakespearean stories helped give birth to Indian cinema. In Johannesburg; we discover how Shakespeare was enlisted in the fight to end apartheid. In nineteenth-century California; we encounter shoestring performances of Richard III and Othello in the dusty mining camps and saloon bars of the Gold Rush.No other writerrsquo;s work has been performed; translated; adapted; and altered in such a remarkable variety of cultures and languages. Both a cultural history and a literary travelogue; Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he ismdash;and why.
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