Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe Audiobook (Free)

Andrew Dickson’s startlingly initial and joyously entertaining Worlds Elsewhere traverses generations and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his functions in an excellent selection of new guises…

‘Extraordinarily exhilarating … like no various other Shakespeare criticism you possess ever go through’ (Margaret Drabble) ~ ‘A tour de force by any criteria’ (David Crystal) ~ ‘Revelatory’ (James Shapiro) ~ ‘Brilliantly unique’ (Michael Pye)

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the on the subject of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.

From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India towards the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s takes on appear at the most fascinating of that time period and in one of the most unexpected of locations. No additional writer’s work has been performed, translated, adapted and altered in that remarkable selection of ethnicities and dialects. But what is it about William Shakespeare – a man from Warwickshire who hardly ever once set foot outside Britain – that has produced him at home in a lot of areas around the globe?

Exploring across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Andrew Dickson takes us on an individual journey abundant with insight and surprise. We enter the air-conditioned vault deep beneath Capitol Hill where in fact the world’s largest collection of First Folios is stored; discover the shadowy background of Joseph Goebbels’s obsession with Shakespeare; and uncover the real story behind the scuffed release in which Nelson Mandela and fellow Robben Isle prisoners inscribed their titles. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, Worlds Elsewhere is an make an effort to understand how Shakespeare is just about the international phenomenon he is – and just why.