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Autore |
Schalkwyk David |
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Titolo |
Hamlet's dreams [[electronic resource] ] : the Robben Island Shakespeare / / David Schalkwyk |
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London, : Arden Shakespeare, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-87423-7 |
1-4411-8374-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Friendship in literature |
Robben Island (South Africa) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General Editors' Preface to the Second-Wave of the Series; Preface; Introduction: Home and Away; Shadows; Signatures; 1 This Island's Mine'; Displacement and Repression; 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow'; 'My co-mates and brothers in exile'; 'The weight of this sad time we must obey'; 'Once more into the breach, dear friends'; The 'TV generation'; 'Words in pain'; 'Reason not the need'; The / of the Prison; Stoic Transcendence and Guilty Complicity; 'A tide in the affairs of men'; 'This island's mine'; 2 Hamlet's Dreams |
The Lyrical / versus the Dramatic We 'Denmark's a prison'; 'Mr. I/Eye'; I/You; 'Strip!'; 'I have that within . . .'; The Burden of We; Three Women Prisoners Speak; Conclusion; 3 Friendship and Struggle; Friends; A 'generally corrupt relationship'; 'Reciprocal altruism'; 'I play the man I am'; 'Twin brothers'; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1970's (including Nelson Mandela), to examine the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare's |
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