Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Paperback, 1)

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