{"product_id":"9781441194800","title":"Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Inside\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Inside\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/em\u003e; and we listen to a chorus of unnamed voices explain how rewriting \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e helps them to survive solitary confinement. \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Inside\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154303664368,"sku":"9781441194800","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441194800_p0.jpg?v=1763792739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441194800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}