Prison Shakespeare and the purpose of performance : repentance rituals and the early modern
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Prison Shakespeare and the purpose of performance : repentance rituals and the early modern
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-138) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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