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Hamlet, Globe to Globe
Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
Dominic Dromgoole(0)
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From the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, an account of the theater's extraordinary two-year tour bringing Hamlet to every country on earth
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"A compulsively readable, intensely personal chronicle of performances in places as various as Djibouti and Gdansk, Taipei and Bogotá . . . [A] wildly ambitious project."
New York Times Book Review
"In this thoughtful and often eloquent account of that world-busting tour, Dromgoole reminds us that Hamlet is intensely political as well as deeply psychological, a study of power and a disturber of the status quo . . . Dromgoole, an excellent dramaturge, draws the curtains aside to reveal the play's lore and history."
Dallas News
"You might think of Dromgoole's new book, Hamlet Globe to Globe, as the Shakespearean equivalent of Bourdain's TV series, Parts Unknown. Both offer us irresistible samples of what Dromgoole calls 'good eating and gargantuan drinking' with off-kilter characters in out-of-our-way places . . . [Dromgoole's] aesthetic principle, or unprincipled aesthetic, makes him a natural tour guide for global Shak
Washington Post