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Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern

Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern
By:N. Herold
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137433954
eText ISBN:9781137432674
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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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.