Shakespeare Inside The Bard Behind Bars

Shakespeare Inside goes behind the scenes to reveal 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. It is not an objective, dispassionate account of how Shakespeare is bastardised by repressive institutions but offers a record of fiercely personal experiences. We hear the Commander of Maxwell Air Force Base describe why dropping bombs is more fun than Shakespeare; the Director of the Alabama Shakespeare festival explain the likeness of George W Bush and Macbeth; ex-offender Mike Smith detail how playing Desdemona was vital to his rehabilitation; and the Education Director of the LA Shakespeare festival recount how their "Will Power" program saved a teenage girl from brutal initiation into a gang. It probes any assumptions we might have about Shakespeare's performative function and asks what - if anything - is the proper place or function of Shakespeare in today's society.

Amy Scott-Douglass is Assistant Professor of English at Denison University

Acknowledgments	p. ix
General Editors' Preface	p. xiii
	p. 1
Shakespeare Behind Bars: Julius Caesar at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex	p. 1
'Shakespeare is my Church': Criminality and the Discourse of Conversion	p. 13
	p. 27
'Words Before Blows': Sammie Byron, Brutus	p. 27
'Most Noble Brother, You Have Done Me Wrong': DeMond Bush, Mark Antony	p. 33
'Have You Not Love Enough to Bear with Me?': Ron Brown, Cassius	p. 40
Intermission	p. 51
Othello: Unplugged at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex	p. 31
	p. 55
The Luckett Symposium on Shakespeare and Race: Titus Andronicus, Merchant of Venice, and Othello	p. 55
'George Bush Doesn't Care about Black People': Agnes Wilcox's Julius Caesar at Northeast Correctional Center	p. 62
	p. 71
'Romans, Countrymen, Lovers!': The Shakespeare Behind Bars Tour at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women	p. 71
'Unsex Me Here': Playing the Lady at Luckett	p. 76
Rapshrew: Jean Trounstine and the Framingham Women's Prison	p. 88
	p. 95
A Visit with Warden Larry Chandler	p. 95
Desdemona Speaks: Mike Smith on the Outside	p. 106
Shakespeare in Solitary: 'To Revenge or to Forgive?': Laura Bates' Hamlet and Othello at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility	p. 109
Epilogue	p. 121
Bibliography	p. 131
Index	p. 137
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