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Zusatztext "The author faced her fears, a decision, she says, that resulted in one of 'the most important and enlightening experiences of [her] adult life.' Based on observations and interviews, Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars offers a voyeuristic peek inside the prison theatre program at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky...like an 'adventure story.'" - Text and Presentation Informationen zum Autor Amy Scott-Douglass is anAssistant Professor in the English department at Marymount University, outsideof Washington, DC. Her scholarship on Shakespeare has appeared in Shakespearesafter Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and PopularCulture , Shakespeare the Movie Part II , The Edinburgh Companionto Shakespeare and the Arts , and Cambridge World ShakespeareEncyclopedia . Klappentext A behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society! particularly in major institutions such as the military! prisons and schools. > Vorwort A behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools. Zusammenfassung 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 they respond to the all-male Shakespeare Behind Bars touring production of Julius Caesar ; and we listen to a chorus of unnamed voices explain how rewriting Hamlet helps them to survive solitary confinement. Shakespeare Inside probes any assumptions we might have about Shakespeare's performative function and asks what - if anything - is the proper place of Shakespeare in today's society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Act One Shakespeare Behind Bars: Julius Caesar at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex Spiritual Shakespeare: Criminality and the Discourse of Conversion Act Two "Words Before Blows": Sammie Byron, Brutus "Most Noble Brother, You Have Done Me Wrong": DeMond Bush, Mark Antony "Have You Not Love Enough to Bear with Me?": Ron Brown, Cassius Intermission: Othello : Unplugged at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex Act Three The Luckett Symposium on Shakespeare and Race: Titus Andronicus, Merchant of Venice , and Othello "George Bush Doesn't Care about Black People": Agnes Wilcox's Julius Caesar at Northeast Correctional Center Act Four "Romans, Countrymen, Lovers!": The Shakespeare Behind Bars Tour at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women "Unsex Me Here": Playing the Lady at Luckett Rapshrew: Jean Trounstine and the Framingham Women's Prison Act Five A Visit with Warden Larry Chandler Desdemona Speaks: Mike Smith on the Outside Shakespeare in Solitary: "To Revenge or to Forgive?": Laura Bates' Hamlet and Othello at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Epilogue ...
