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Cargando... Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globepor Andrew Dickson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sometimes I pick a book by its cover or title, especially nonfiction, as that can be enough to interest me. I certainly did that with this book. The shocking surprise was that it wasn't at all about what I thought it would be! I was expecting history of the world during the time of Shakespeare. Instead, I was thrilled to find myself swept away for an epic journey around the world to find the works of Shakespeare and how they are produced, received, taught, etc. from Germany to Taiwan! Andrew Dickson's narration of his experience and his inclusion of himself in the narrative of the book was perfect. It felt like having a conversation with a friend or colleague about their amazing project, which I suppose it was. Truly fascinating to see how universal and lasting Shakespeare is (and how some is not) in spite of cultural, political, and time differences. Ready to pull out my complete works and read some of the plays I haven't yet! ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays-more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen, and how? Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 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, Dickson takes us on an extraordinary journey-from Hamlet performed by English actors tramping through Poland in the early 1600s to twenty-first-century Shanghai, where Shashibiya survived Mao's Cultural Revolution to become an honored Chinese author. Both a cultural history and a literary travelogue, the first of its kind, Worlds Elsewhere explores how Shakespeare became the world's writer, and how his works have changed beyond all recognition during the journey. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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