Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere offers a fresh and entertaining perspective on Shakespeare’s global influence, exploring the playwright’s works in diverse contexts. This audiobook takes listeners on a journey through centuries and cultures, revealing Shakespeare as an anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, and a hero of the Wild West.

Traveling across four continents and 400 years, Dickson invites listeners to explore fascinating locations, from the vault beneath Capitol Hill housing the world’s largest collection of First Folios to the history of Joseph Goebbels’s obsession with Shakespeare. This exploration also includes the poignant story behind the edition of Shakespeare’s works shared by Nelson Mandela and fellow prisoners on Robben Island. Worlds Elsewhere is both a cultural history and literary travelogue that seeks to uncover why Shakespeare continues to resonate globally.