Hamlet's dreams [[electronic resource] ] : the Robben Island Shakespeare / / David Schalkwyk

• Autore: Schalkwyk David
• Pubblicazione: London, : Arden Shakespeare, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: Friendship in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Robben Island (South Africa)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Hamlet. It looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict...
• Titolo autorizzato: Hamlet's dreams
• ISBN: 1-283-87423-7; 1-4411-8374-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779459103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Shakespeare Now!