Worlds elsewhere : journeys around Shakespeare's globe
Dickson, Andrew, 1979-2015
Books, Manuscripts
From the first recorded performance of 'Hamlet' in Sierra Leone in 1607 to a one-man King Lear in China in 2001; from the famous 'Robben Island Bible', the edition of Shakespeare in which Mandela and his fellow prisoners inscribed their names, to the world's largest collection of First Folios in an underground vault on Capitol Hill; from the renaissance city-state of Gdansk to the revolutionary wars of the USA to the collapse of the Berlin Wall - Shakespeare and his plays have made a home for themselves at the most interesting of times and unexpected of places. Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Andrew Dickson takes us on a personal journey of countless surprises in an attempt to understand how and why Shakespeare became the truly global phenomenon he is.
Main title:
Worlds elsewhere : journeys around Shakespeare's globe / Andrew Dickson.
Author:
Dickson, Andrew, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2015.London : The Bodley Head, 2015.
Collation:
xxvii, 483 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847922458 (hbk)
Dewey class:
822.33
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1788188