Continuous Quiz: High Brow

[Ambassador]

Those were the Nazarenes

Try this one instead

What is the Robben Island bible, now on display at the British Museum?

[dxdtdemon]

Is it a book of writings by Nelson Mandela while he was in prison?

[Ambassador]

No.

Mandela did write his signature in it, to mark a passage as significant; the book is full of similar annotations by the ANC leadership.

Clue: It was disguised as a religious work so the guards would not confiscate it. It's literature.

[davidmfay]

Complete works of the Bard? It's the nearest thing in English lit to the Bible. Two books you might be allowed to bring with you on Robben Island Discs!

[Ambassador]

Apologies in replying, just back from abroad.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare it is!

[davidmfay]

Thanks Andy. On a related theme, which writer propounded the theory that the "Mr. W. H." to whom the Sonnets are dedicated was one Willie Hews, a boy actor he suggested as first performing numerous cross-dressing roles e.g. Juliet and the lead character's wife in the Scottish play?

[davidmfay]

Time for a clue so: The writer who propounded this theory was Irish although his surname is spelled the same (but pronounced quite differently) as a prominent Estonian poet.

[Ambassador]

EQC participation brings its own rewards. Tartu has a statue (photo on request) of Edward Wilde having tea with Oscar

So Oscar Wilde is my answer

[davidmfay]

Yes Andy and there is an exact replica of that statue of the two Wildes in Galway donated by Estonia in 2005. I have now seen both statues close up! I hand the baton on with hearty congrats...

[DanielFullard]

Googled that to see it...nice statue!