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Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred 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 worlds Shakespeare never himself explored 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 Shashibiya survived Mao s Cultural Revolution to become a revered Chinese author. En route, Dickson traces Nazi Germany 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

New yorkUnited statesMichael pyeAndrew dicksonJames shapiroAnthony holdenWilliam shakespeareNelson mandelaMargaret drabbleJoseph goebbelsDominic dromgooleNick curtisLibrary journalStanley wellsGeneral editorYork times book