Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fox, Liz; Hausknecht, Gina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040325827
• Artikelnr.: 73302092

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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