Prison Shakespeare and the purpose of performance : repentance rituals and the early modern / Niels Herold.
Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. While twentieth and twenty-first century ideas about theatre as therapy, political resistance, and popular education hold sway for many programs, this boo...
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Palgrave Pivot,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Penitential Communities
- 2. Eating the Text: Shakespeare and Change
- 3. Shakespeare and Incarceration
- 4. Others: 'There but for the grace of God'
- Epilogue: Underworld of Shadows.