num_pages: 272
description: In this deeply stirring account, Jean Trounstine, who spent 10 years teaching at Framingham (MA) Women's Prison, focuses on six inmates who, each in her own way, discover in the power of Shakespeare a way to transcend the painful constraints of incarceration. Shakespeare Behind Bars is a powerful story about the redemptive power of art and education.Originally published in cloth in 2001, the paperback includes a new foreword that will inspire all teachers who work with students others have deemed unteachable. A new afterword updates readers on the prison art's program -- and the author herself -- since 2001.
language: English
title: Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison
titlecomplete: Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 53
publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT