Shakespeare inside : the Bard behind bars by Amy Scott-Douglass

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By Amy Scott-Douglass

SHAKESPEARE within: THE BARD at the back of BARS goes behind the curtain to bare Shakespeare at paintings within the such a lot decisive institutional context of our time -- in prisons. The publication bargains a list of fiercely own stories, established upon the author's adventure of looking at legal backyard rehearsals and performances, and interviewing inmates, software administrators, and wardens. We listen an ex-offender clarify how enjoying Desdemona used to be very important to his rehabilitation; we sit down within the viewers of ladies inmates as they reply to the all-male Shakespeare in the back of Bars traveling creation of JULIUS CAESAR; and we hearken to a refrain of unnamed voices aspect how rewriting Hamlet is helping them to outlive solitary confinement. SHAKESPEARE INSIDE probes our assumptions about Shakespeare and approximately prisoners, and gives new perception into the functionality of Shakespeare today.

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I ask. Big G can’t even recall. ‘Probably Romeo and Juliet,’ he responds. ‘Probably for English 102 class or something. I played football the whole time that I was in high school, and I used to say, “God, Shakespeare? You’ve got to be kidding! ” And now I’m here doing it, and it’s taken up so much of my life. ’ I tell Big G that I heard his performance of Caliban was a big hit when Shakespeare Behind Bars toured to the nearby women’s prison, Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women. He blushes.

I ask Karen Heath, the Shakespeare Behind Bars staff liaison. ’ I ask. ‘The inmates have to tell their kids no; they can’t hold them,’ she insists. ’ By the end of the second day, I’ve met several of the lead actors. As they come through the door that leads from the prison yard to the Visitors’ Room, they all say hello. DeMond approaches me with outstretched arms, Big G collects an embrace, and then an Shakespeare Behind Bars participant I have never met comes up and stands right in front of me.

Just hearing the words trip off the tongue and the sounds that are made … it’s very beautiful to me. That’s what draws me in. Then you have the obstacle of understanding content. With Shakespeare you can extract from the text or you can read into it. ’ I ask. Leonard’s voice lowers and softens. ‘Yes, because for me what is so horrible about prison is intellectual and psychologically it shuts you down. ’ I don’t think I could find two people more different than Leonard Ford and Howard Ralston. When I meet with Leonard – a slim, tidy, white man who enjoyed a well-paying job in the business sector before his imprisonment – he’s just come from yoga.

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