"How I May Compare This Prison Where I Live Unto the World"

Alternative title

Shakespeare in Solitary

Synopsis

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. For ten years, Laura Bates, a professor at Indiana State University, taught Shakespeare to a group of men incarcerated in the solitary confinement unit at Indiana’s Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. These are, for the most part, prisoners considered so dangerous they were kept apart, even from the other prisoners. Every week, Professor Bates would make her way over to solitary confinement and sit down in a space in between the cells of these men to discuss Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and Richard II. She wrote about her experiences in a book titled Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard. Laura Bates is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Audio

Notes

Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-58 (accessed 10/2016).

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

prisoners; prisons; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Online availability

URI

http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-58

Credits

Producer

Richard Paul

Contributor

Barbara Bogaev; Laura Bates (1)

Production Company

Name

R.L. Paul Productions