Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard (Audiobook)

from SigmundFraud

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard is a heart wrenching story. I so wanted that lifer to be free. That man grew so much under the tutelage of Professor Bates. This book is definitely worth a detour. It will touch you heart and make you question if there should be life ...

from MaggieFlo

This book is about Laura Bates and her star pupil, Larry Newton. Bates is a professor of English, specializing in Shakespeare and Newton is a lifer in an Indiana prison. Bates uses Shakespeare's plays MacBeth, Hamlet and RicHard2 to help her prison students examine their lives in prison in relati...

from bookworm12

A nonfiction account of a college professor who teaches a Shakespeare class at a maximum-security prison in Indiana. The results are life-changing for some of the inmates. I loved the prisoners' interpretation of many of the Bard's plays. Their unique perspectives gave added depth to many plays, ...

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Even though this book was really disorganized and jumped around, I really thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't so much a memoir, as much as it was a story about a maximum security inmate whose life changed by attending a Shakespeare program in prison. Laura Bates, a college professor, started going t...

from PleasantHome

Excellent, easy read on a challenging difficult topic. Will make you laugh, maybe cry, and certainly think. Highly recommend.