Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern [electronic resource] /
Herold, N.author.
Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice.
Performing arts.
Critical criminology.
Theater.
Arts.
Criminology.
British literature.
Performing Arts.
Critical Criminology.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
British and Irish Literature.