Shakespeare Inside

The Bard Behind Bars
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8699-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 180 g

Reihe: Shakespeare Now! Series Editors: Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie

behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools

Based on interviews and research in the UK and US
- Explores the potential of Shakespeare in performance within major institutional contexts
- Part of the Shakespeare Now! series: - an new innovative and exciting series
- Includes coverage of the Shakespeare Behind Bars project featured in a recent documentary of the same name.

SERIES DESCRIPTION
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. Shakespeare Now! recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best methods for approaching his plays. Shakespeare Now! is a new generation of critics, unafraid of risk, on a series of intellectual adventures. Above all - it is a new Shakespeare, freshly present in each volume.

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott Douglas, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungsorganisation und -politik, Verwaltungslehre

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

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Scott Douglas is Assistant Professor at Denison University, USA. She has held fellowships at Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and as editor in charge of recent stage adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, she wrote more than two hundred entries in Shakespeare's After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture (Greenwood, 2006).

Simon Palfrey is a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Ewan Fernie is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London.