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'Drawing on understudied archival material, James Taylor's Touring Shakespeare tells a fascinating story about mid-twentieth-century global tours by British Shakespeare companies. Decolonising the history of cultural diplomacy and connecting it to touring politics in our contemporary era, this study is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on global Shakespeare.' Alexa Alice Joubin, inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award

'Drawing on understudied archival material, James Taylor's Touring Shakespeare tells a fascinating story about mid-twentieth-century global tours by British Shakespeare companies. Decolonising the history of cultural diplomacy and connecting it to touring politics in our contemporary era, this study is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on global Shakespeare.' Alexa Alice Joubin, inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award 'Taylor's Touring Shakespeare is an important book which offers an authoritative account of the way in which Shakespeare was used to advance the cause of British cultural diplomacy in the context of the end of empire and the advance of the Cold War. It is a masterful study, grounded in new archival work and providing fresh political and cultural insights on every page. A wonderful achievement.' Andrew Murphy, 1867 Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin

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Dr Jim Taylor is an independent scholar. He has taught at Université Jean Moulin and Université Lumière in Lyon and held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Open University, UK, where he received the Chancellor Lord Asa Briggs Award. His work has been published in Shakespeare and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare.

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