Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Scott-Douglass, Amy,

Titel

Shakespeare inside : the Bard behind bars

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

London ; : Continuum,

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

• Bloomsbury Drama Online - Scholarly Books (2013-2016)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-136) and index.
• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; General Editors' Preface; Act 1; Act 2; Intermission; Act 3; Act 4; Act 5; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Shakespeare Inside goes behind the scenes to reveal Shakespeare at work in the most decisive institutional context of our time - in prisons. Based upon the author's experience of watching prison yard rehearsals and performances, and interviewing inmates, program directors, and wardens, Shakespeare Inside is not an objective, dispassionate account of how Shakespeare is bastardized by repressive institutions but offers a record of fiercely personal experiences. We hear ex-offender Mike Smith detail how playing Desdemona was vital to his rehabilitation; we sit in the audience of women inmates as
• Also issued in printing.
• English