Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare

by David Schalkwyk

Book Overview

Hamlet's Dreams brings together the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and the prison that is Denmark for Shakespeare's Hamlet. David Shalkwyk uses the circulation of the so-called 'Robben Island Shakespeare', a copy of the Alexander edition of the Complete Works that was secretly circulated, annotated and signed by a group of Robben Island political prisoner in the 1970s (including Nelson Mandela), to examine the representation and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441129286
• ISBN13: 9781441129284
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"