Today, we published an excerpt from Laura Bates's Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the
Bard. Bates taught Shakespeare to solitary confinement prison inmates. She
befriends a convicted murderer named Larry. In the piece published on HuffPost
Books today, we hear the story behind their budding friendship:
“Oh, man, this is my favorite freakin’ quote!”
What professor wouldn’t like to hear a student enthuse so much over a Shakespeare play—a Shakespeare history play, no less!—and then to be able to flip the two-thousand page Complete Works book open and find the quote immediately:
“’When that this body did contain a spirit, a kingdom for it was too small a bound!’”
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“Oh, man, this is my favorite freakin’ quote!”
What professor wouldn’t like to hear a student enthuse so much over a Shakespeare play—a Shakespeare history play, no less!—and then to be able to flip the two-thousand page Complete Works book open and find the quote immediately:
“’When that this body did contain a spirit, a kingdom for it was too small a bound!’”
Continue reading...
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