Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Edward Wilson-Lee looks at how the playwright’s work became celebrated on a global scale, while Dean Allen recounts the story of a pioneering British cricket enthusiast who popularised the sport in 19th-century South Africa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.9	they're going to, they're going to become more and more to the front of how we think about
0:48.3	Shakespeare, and I think that's a fantastic thing.
0:50.6	That was Edward Wilson Lee talking about Shakespeare's global impact.
0:55.6	Both the English cricket authorities, certainly the captain and the management,
0:59.0	wanted to make money out of this tour, as did James Logan.
1:01.6	But because this second tour in 1891 did not make the money they had expected,
1:05.9	James Logan had the English cricket team arrested as they boarded their ship back to England.
1:10.3	And that was Dean Allen, discussing how cricket came to South Africa in the 19th century.
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