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Goodreads asked Andrew Dickson:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Andrew Dickson A bit difficult to say because -- perhaps like all books -- the idea really came from many places: a Soviet version of King Lear I watched when I was in my early 20s, which made me realise how political the play was; seeing a German Hamlet in Berlin, which was like nothing I'd ever experienced in a theatre; and talking to a Taiwanese director about why he felt that Shakespeare was intrinsically Chinese! Hundreds of different conversations, and months of sitting in libraries. I started thinking about the project in 2010, but it took me two years to buy a world map, and start plotting the Shakespearian journeys I could make.

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