Ebook: Hamlet: Globe to globe :two years, 193,000 miles, 197 countries, one play
Author: Dromgoole Dominic, Shakespeare William
- Tags: Hamlet (Legendary character), Influence (Literary artistic etc.), Theatrical companies, Theatrical companies--England--London, Theatrical companies--Travel, Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616. -- Hamlet, Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616 -- Influence, Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616, Hamlet (Shakespeare William), Theatrical companies -- England -- London, Theatrical companies -- Travel, England -- London
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Grove Atlantic
- City: England;London
- Language: English
- epub
Two years. 193,000 miles. 190 countries. One play. For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth the Globe Theatre undertook an unparalleled journey, to take Hamlet to every country on the planet, to share this beloved play with the entire world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, and in Hamlet Globe to Globe, Dromgoole takes readers along with him.
From performing in sweltering deserts, ice-cold cathedrals, and heaving marketplaces, and despite food poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine, the Globe's players pushed on. Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare—what the Danish prince means to the people of Sudan, the effect of Ophelia on the citizens of Costa Rica, and how a sixteenth-century play can touch the lives of Syrian refugees. And thanks to this incredible undertaking, Dromgoole uses the world to glean new...