Reading the Past | Shakespeare in Prison: The Robben Island Bible @ReadingthePast | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
Let's take a look at the Complete Works of Shakespeare that comforted and connected freedom fighters... it's time to explore the Robben Island Bible...

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Screenshot of google.com/maps/place/Robben+Island/@-33.9375812,18.4652814,11z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x1dcc8a654bdf75cb:0x7d6f64452ede9061!8m2!3d-33.8076073!4d18.3712309!16zL20vMDZoejY?entry=ttu

Screenshots from voanews.com/a/nelson-mandela-and-robben-island-shakespeare/1703937.html showing the “Robben Island Bible”.

Screenshots from https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/A_Book_Behind_Bars:_The_Robben_Island_Shakespeare

Screenshot of opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=asyoulikeit&Act=1&Scene=1&Scope=scene

Screenshot of https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/Macbeth/read/1/7/

Quoted texts:

https://www.robben-island.org.za/

thewire.in/world/sonny-venkatrathnam-anti-apartheid-crusader-with-a-shakespearian-gita

Folgerpedia: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/A_Book_Behind_Bars:_The_Robben_Island_Shakespeare

Dora Thornton quoted in “The Robben Island Shakespeare” by Matthew Hahn (2017)

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