Reading revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island

by Ashwin Desai

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The prison authorities on Robben Island displayed a remarkable obsession with censoring the news that prisoners could receive of the outside world. Yet, as the pages of this book reveal, political prisoners managed to escape these constraints through literature, travelling to the sites of contemporary revolutionary struggles and to the frontlines of the French and Bolshevik revolutions. Tolstoy jostled with Trotsky, while Shakespeare `winged' his way over the walls of the single and communal cells. As the prisoners brought their experiences to bear on the text, the works of Shakespeare were mined for their anti-colonial and anti-apartheid inspirations as...

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  • ISBN13 9781868886838
  • Publish Date 20 January 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country ZA
  • Imprint Unisa Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Language English