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behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools
Based on interviews and research in the UK and US
- Explores the potential of Shakespeare in performance within major institutional contexts
- Part of the Shakespeare Now! series: - an new innovative and exciting series
- Includes coverage of the Shakespeare Behind Bars project featured in a recent documentary of the same name.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. Shakespeare Now! recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best methods for approaching his plays. Shakespeare Now! is a new generation of critics, unafraid of risk, on a series of intellectual adventures. Above all - it is a new Shakespeare, freshly present in each volume.
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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780826486998
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-8264-8699-8
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.03.2007
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2007
- Serie: Shakespeare Now! Series Editors: Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 180 g
- Seiten: 160
- Format (B x H x T): 129 x 198 x 9 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Rechtswissenschaften
- Öffentliches Recht
- Verwaltungsrecht
- Verwaltungsorganisation und -politik, Verwaltungslehre
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste
- Theaterwissenschaft
- Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Politikwissenschaft
- Politische Systeme
- Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste
- Theaterwissenschaft
- Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion