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Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students, describing powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore the complexity of "prison Shakespeare."
List of contents
Foreword; Introduction: Why is Shakespeare in Prison Today?
; Past & Present; 1. Shakespeare's "Working-house of thought": The prison in early modern London; 2. Hope Needs to be Loud: A Founding Member on Nearly Thirty Years of Shakespeare Behind Bars; 3. Three Thousand Hours: Shakespeare and Awe in Prison;
Interventions; 4. The Cultural Invasion of Shakespeare in Prison; 5. The Cultural Invasion of Shakespeare in Prison: Contexts and Futures; 6. Shakespeare at Auburn: Reflections on Teaching & Learning in the Prison Classroom; 7. "Prisoners of our Actions": Teaching
Hamlet on Rikers Island; 8. Playing Many Parts: The Challenges of Representing Incarcerated Shakespeares; 9. Michael Chekhov Technique as a Trauma-responsive Practice in Shakespeare in Prison;
Practice; 10. "Presume not that I am the thing I was": Collaborative Theater Companies in English Prisons; 11. "Like Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The First Six Months of a Prison Shakespeare Program; 12. Wasps and Falcons: Figurative Language and Teaching Shakespeare's Women; 13. Counter-Readings: Reimagining Shakespeare in Prison Libraries; 14. I Was Octavius Caesar;
Futures; 15. Within and Beyond: Shakespeare Behind/BEYOND Bars; 16. Time Out of Joint: Taking Shakespeare from Prisons to Schools; 17. Marin Shakespeare Company and the Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe; Index
About the author
Liz Fox is Arts and Academic Programs Coordinator at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She teaches literature courses for a variety of prison education programs.
Gina Hausknecht is Professor of English and the director of the Prison Learning Initiative at Coe College, USA.
Summary
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students, describing powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore the complexity of “prison Shakespeare.”
