Hamlet: Globe to Globe - 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They set their stage in sprawling refugee camps, grand Baltic palaces and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine. Hamlet: Globe to Globe tells the story of this unprecedented theatrical adventure, in which Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare's universal drama, and asks how a 400-year-old tragedy can bring the world closer together.

About the author

Dominic Dromgoole was the Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre in London from 2005 to 2016. He is the author of The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting and of Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life, which won the inaugural Sheridan Morley award. He regularly contributes to the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and other publications.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Dromgoole, Dromgoole Dominic
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9781782116929
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-692-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Theatre, ballet: general, reference works; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, Expeditions: popular accounts, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights