{"product_id":"hamlets-dreams-david-schalkwyk-9781441129284","title":"Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare","description":"\u003ci\u003eHamlet's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/i\u003e that was secretly circulated, annotated and signed by a group of Robben Island political prisoner in the 1970s (including Nelson Mandela), to examine the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict the ways in which personal identity can be formed or formulated in relation to others. The 'bad dreams' that keep Hamlet from considering himself the 'king of infinite space' are, it argues, the need for other people that becomes especially evident in situations of real or psychological imprisonment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Schalkwyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441129286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441129284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"David Schalkwyk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935034310911,"sku":"9781441129284","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_dab87181-56ff-4ca5-9400-d1b4e41b45d0.jpg?v=1681417469","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hamlets-dreams-david-schalkwyk-9781441129284","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}