This title is about the clandestine role of William Shakespeare literature on Robben Island among the political prisoners during the Apartheid era. It's essentially about how the literature was used in a disguised manner as religious material, to form part of the political education among the prisoners.
The prison authorities on Robben Island displayed a remarkable obsession with censoring the news that prisoners could receive of the outside world. Yet, as this book reveals, political prisoners managed to escape these constraints through literature. 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 much as for the power and beauty of their words.
