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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Teachers who think their students are tough might find inspiration in Trounstine's 10-year stint teaching creative writing and theater in a high security Massachusetts state women's prison. Wry jokes about "captive audiences" and costumed inmates who are "dressed to kill" aside, Trounstine's tone is serious, and we watch her grow increasingly emotionally attached to her students. In chapters devoted to each of six inmates and prefaced by a brief quote from the Bard, Trounstine (editor of Changing Lives Through Literature) attempts to understand her students' lives and crimes through literature. "Dolly," who is abused by her boyfriend, seems especially drawn to The Taming of the Shrew; "Kit," the class clown, reminds Trounstine of Shakespeare's many fools. Rose, who is stigmatized by inmates and staff alike because of her HIV status, gives a heartbreaking rendition of Shylock's famous "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech, revealing that Trounstine isn't simply fitting her students' complex lives into theatrical set pieces. Despite their initial fear that "Shakespeare is white man's theater," the students come to identify with the playwright's characters and use the experience of performance (Trounstine ends up directing eight plays) as a kind of art therapy. Aimed primarily at an academic audience, this affecting memoir should appeal to educators and general readers interested in the relationship between social change and artistic practice. (Feb.)
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From Library Journal
This book grabs the reader's interest from the opening paragraph. Why Shakespeare? Why women in prison? What could they learn, or teach the reader about The Merchant of Venice or anything else, for that matter? Trounstine (Middlesex Community Coll.), cofounder of the women's branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an educational alternative to prison, answers these questions and many others in straightforward language that avoids empty academic phrasing. This book, which resulted from her teaching acting for ten years at the Framingham Women's Prison, focuses on six of the many women in her classes. Portrayed sensitively but without pathos or pity, these women will be indelibly etched in the reader's mind, forever altering the way he or she sees or reads Shakespeare. The woman known as "Dolly" is particularly haunting, and Trounstine's revelation at the end of the book that she has been pardoned and has begun a new life is uplifting. Recommended for both academic and large public libraries. Susan L. Peters, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Teachers who think their students are tough might find inspiration in Trounstine's 10-year stint teaching creative writing and theater in a high security Massachusetts state women's prison. Wry jokes about "captive audiences" and costumed inmates who are "dressed to kill" aside, Trounstine's tone is serious, and we watch her grow increasingly emotionally attached to her students. In chapters devoted to each of six inmates and prefaced by a brief quote from the Bard, Trounstine (editor of Changing Lives Through Literature) attempts to understand her students' lives and crimes through literature. "Dolly," who is abused by her boyfriend, seems especially drawn to The Taming of the Shrew; "Kit," the class clown, reminds Trounstine of Shakespeare's many fools. Rose, who is stigmatized by inmates and staff alike because of her HIV status, gives a heartbreaking rendition of Shylock's famous "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech, revealing that Trounstine isn't simply fitting her students' complex lives into theatrical set pieces. Despite their initial fear that "Shakespeare is white man's theater," the students come to identify with the playwright's characters and use the experience of performance (Trounstine ends up directing eight plays) as a kind of art therapy. Aimed primarily at an academic audience, this affecting memoir should appeal to educators and general readers interested in the relationship between social change and artistic practice. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This book grabs the reader's interest from the opening paragraph. Why Shakespeare? Why women in prison? What could they learn, or teach the reader about The Merchant of Venice or anything else, for that matter? Trounstine (Middlesex Community Coll.), cofounder of the women's branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an educational alternative to prison, answers these questions and many others in straightforward language that avoids empty academic phrasing. This book, which resulted from her teaching acting for ten years at the Framingham Women's Prison, focuses on six of the many women in her classes. Portrayed sensitively but without pathos or pity, these women will be indelibly etched in the reader's mind, forever altering the way he or she sees or reads Shakespeare. The woman known as "Dolly" is particularly haunting, and Trounstine's revelation at the end of the book that she has been pardoned and has begun a new life is uplifting. Recommended for both academic and large public libraries. Susan L. Peters, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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