| Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars Contributor(s): Scott-Douglass, Amy (Author), Fernie, Ewan (Editor), Palfrey, Simon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826486991 ISBN-13: 9780826486998 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Reveals Shakespeare at work in the most decisive institutional contexts of our time - in the military, in prisons, and in schools whose populations are in some or other way segregated. This title offers a record of personal experiences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| Series: Shakespeare Now! |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 7.1" W x 7.76" (0.39 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fernie, Ewan: - Ewan Fernie is Professor and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Shame in Shakespeare, the editor of Spiritual Shakespeares and general editor (with Simon Palfrey) of the Shakespeare Now! series.Palfrey, Simon: - Simon Palfrey is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford University. His books include Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words (Oxford, 1997); Shakespeare in Parts (Oxford, 2007), written with Tiffany Stern and awarded the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's David Bevington Prize for best new book; Romeo and Juliet (Short Books, 2011); and the novel Dunsinane, written with Ewan Fernie. He is the founding editor (with Fernie) of Continuum's innovative series of 'minigraphs', Shakespeare Now! His new work includes a book on possible worlds in early modern drama and philosophy, and a play inspired by Spenser's Faerie Queen. His book Doing Shakespeare was published by Arden Shakespeare in 2005, reissued 2011. |