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Chapter 8 - Shakespeare In and Out of Prison

A Collaboration between the World Shakespeare Project and Shakespeare Central

from Part II - Reimagining Shakespeare with/in Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

By
Sheila T. Cavanagh  and
Steve Rowland
Edited by
Liam E. Semler ,
Claire Hansen  and
Jacqueline Manuel
Liam E. Semler
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Claire Hansen
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Jacqueline Manuel
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
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Summary

The World Shakespeare Project (WSP), directed by Sheila T. Cavanagh at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Shakespeare Central (SC), created and led by Steve Rowland in Seattle, Washington, collaborate together regularly. The WSP uses site visits and videoconferencing to link diverse students, teachers and arts practitioners in Shakespearean-based conversations and performance exercises across many geographic, socio-economic and other divides. SC seeks to facilitate Shakespearean pedagogy in order to further its tenets that ‘Shakespeare is for Everyone’ and that ‘Shakespeare Changes Lives.’ The WSP/SC partnership takes many forms, but this Shakespeare in Prison project continues to teach us about ways to integrate personal experiences with academic undertakings. Shared explorations of Shakespeare appear to increase learning for everyone involved.

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prisoncollaborationprisoner/undergraduate partnershipsShakespearean correspondence
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Reimagining Shakespeare Education
Teaching and Learning through Collaboration
 , pp. 127 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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