Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. The valiant never taste of death but once. And what Mandela himself quoted were lines from Julius Caesar."Ĭowards die many times before their deaths
"You got everybody, in a way, articulating the struggle of apartheid through Shakespeare. "And he passed it round to the other inmates who would read the plays at night and then autograph and underline their favorite passages," Doran says. When Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island in South Africa, another prisoner smuggled a copy of Shakespeare's complete plays into the jail. Gregory Doran, the artistic director of the RSC, first got the idea of doing an African Julius Caesar when he met Nelson Mandela several years ago. Recently, England's Royal Shakespeare Company produced a Julius Caesar set in contemporary Africa that was a hit at the World Shakespeare Festival, presented in conjunction with the London Olympics.
The 400-year-old plays of William Shakespeare are constantly being reinterpreted and re-envisioned for new generations.
Julius Caesar (Jeffery Kissoon) is attacked by members of the Senate in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of the play.
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