03173nam 2200589Ia 450 991082917020332120240313114829.01-283-87423-71-4411-8374-4(CKB)2550000000709851(EBL)1106788(OCoLC)821900973(SSID)ssj0000811046(PQKBManifestationID)12370352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811046(PQKBWorkID)10833505(PQKB)11086819(MiAaPQ)EBC1106788(Au-PeEL)EBL1106788(CaPaEBR)ebr10638864(CaONFJC)MIL418673(EXLCZ)99255000000070985120130108d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHamlet's dreams the Robben Island Shakespeare /David Schalkwyk1st ed.London Arden Shakespeare20131 online resource (209 p.)Shakespeare now!Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-2928-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 DreamsThe 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; IndexHamlet'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 Hamlet. It looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict...Shakespeare Now!Friendship in literatureRobben Island (South Africa)Friendship in literature.822.33Schalkwyk David1119385MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829170203321Hamlet's dreams4014143UNINA