The Robben Island Shakespeare

by Matthew Hahn

During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book's significance resides in the fact that the book's owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells, including Nelson Mandela, asking them to mark their favourite passages with a signature and date. Informally known as "the Robben Island Bible",...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147428387X
• ISBN13: 9781474283878
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"