Hamid and Shakespeare

The Tragi-Comic Journey of a Refugee

Majid Hamid

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English

Myriad Editions
21 April 2022

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Graphic novels; Refugees & political asylum

Hamid & Shakespeare is a debut graphic novel by a former Calais jungle refugee imagining a friendship between a refugee arriving in London today and the nation's most famous playwright

A chance spotting from the back of a refrigerated lorry of a poster marking Shakespeare's 400th birthday spurs a refugee's imagination to transport himself from his detention cell to a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's Globe Theatre. As we move between the 21st and 17th centuries, Shakespeare introduces Hamid both to a promised new land, and to a series of well known plays through which Hamid tells his own experiences: of interrogation, of his journey from home: crossing the sea, getting lost in the forest, his months spent in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, and his arrival in the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry. In turn, Shakespeare teaches Hamid how to speak English and how to behave as he navigates the London Underground, and gives him a helping hand at the Home Office.

The book is created in collaboration with award-winning theatre company Good Chance who have worked with Adin since meeting him in their pop-up dome in the Calais Jungle.

By: Majid Hamid
Imprint: Myriad Editions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 170mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9781912408801
ISBN 10: 1912408805
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Majid Adin is an Iranian artist and animator, who arrived in the UK in a refrigerated truck in 2016. Ten years earlier, an occasional blog he wrote upset the regime in Iran, and he was forced into political exile from Tehran following a brief imprisonment. It was only ten years later that he took up the pen again, as a refugee in the Calais jungle. He lives in West Hampstead.

Reviews for Hamid and Shakespeare: The Tragi-Comic Journey of a Refugee

'Hamid and Shakespeare is the story of two people from different worlds colliding and finding that despite, or perhaps because of, their differences, they need each other. It's a rip-roaring adventure that sees England and Hamid's homeland seen through the eyes of newcomers. And it is this new lens, new perspective, new energy that we are so desperately in need of.' - Good Chance Artistic Directors Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson