Gangsta Shakespeare
Underlying Logic 2016-03-31
Summary:
“It will be like catching butterflies in the dark,” a colleague of mine commented.
He was talking about my signing up to teach a course called “Shakespeare in Prison” at the Hampshire County Jail, in Northampton, Mass. It would have a total of 30 students, half inmates and half Amherst students, and focus on the sonnets and a handful of late plays, including King Lear and The Tempest.
“The endeavor is laudable but impractical,” my colleague added. “Language is an impediment. You will be di...