This week's podcast Sex and Shakespeare. I'll explain. First, a theatrical challenge.

How do you share Shakespeare's masterpiece with the entire world? Dominic Drumgull, the

former director of the Globe Theatre in London, will be here to talk about his new book,

Hamlet, Globe to Globe.

In some way that was honoring the tradition of touring Shakespeare with Scorsese Back to the

World. What can you learn from the latest guides to sex and relationships? Our

intrepid self-help columnist, Judith Newman, has read them and will let us know. It speaks

to the question of what we want when we look at sex self-help books. We're usually not

looking for positions. We're looking at new ways to connect with people. Alexander

Altar will give us an update from the literary world. Plus, we'll talk about what we and

the wider world are reading. This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela

Paul.

Dominic Drumgull joins us now from London. He is the author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe. Two

years, 190,000 miles, 197 countries, one play. Dominic, thank you for being here.

You were from 2006 to 2016, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, Theatre in London,

which I think sounds to a lot of people like a total dream job. What was it actually like?

It's a total dream job. I mean, it's a complete privilege for a whole bizarre collection

of different reasons. I think most is the excitement and the appetizer and the hunger

of the audience that arrive every afternoon and every evening to see shows is just this constant

injection of goodwill and enthusiasm, the like of which I don't know if you get in any

other job in the world. There are tough bits, but it is exhausting and it is a bit training

and you've got to fight back on them or whatever. You're constantly refreshed by just this

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