Amy Scott-Douglass

Shakespeare Inside (eBook, PDF)

The Bard Behind Bars

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441127273
• Artikelnr.: 38300013

Autorenporträt

Amy Scott-Douglass is an
Assistant Professor in the English department at Marymount University, outside
of Washington, DC. Her scholarship on Shakespeare has appeared in Shakespeares
after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular
Culture, Shakespeare the Movie Part II, The Edinburgh Companion
to Shakespeare and the Arts, and Cambridge World Shakespeare
Encyclopedia.

Inhaltsangabe

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