Post Tagged with: "Andrew Dickson"

The world’s the stage: Shakespeare’s rise to global pre-eminence

By Jerry Brotton for the Financial Times, 30 December 2015 Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, by Andrew Dickson, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 512 pages Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith, OUP, RRP£19.99, 328 pages The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Cambridge University Press, RRP£18.99/RRP$29.99, 386 pages 1606: William Shakespeare and […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews
How kind has the Indian stage been to William Shakespeare?

How kind has the Indian stage been to William Shakespeare?

By Andrew Dickson for Scroll.in, 25 November 2015 I spent months trying to work out where truth ended in Shakespeare Wallah and fiction began. I dug out Geoffrey Kendal’s diaries, published in 1986, and read them cover to cover. They were enjoyably garrulous, retelling Kendal’s first glimpse of Mumbai with the Entertainments National Service Association, sent out to perform for British troops […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Global
Theatrical knotweed: Margaret Drabble journeys around Shakespeare’s globe

Theatrical knotweed: Margaret Drabble journeys around Shakespeare’s globe

By Margaret Drabble for the NewStatesman, 18 October 2015 It is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume. This is an extraordinarily exhilarating book. It is like no other Shakespeare criticism you have ever read, and it takes you into unimagined realms of speculation. Andrew Dickson, like Puck, has put a girdle round about the earth, and […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews, Uncategorized