SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE: TEN YEARS IN SOLITARY WITH THE BARD By Laura Bates


Laura Bates is an English professor from Indiana State University. Bates has a PhD. from the University of Chicago where she specialized in Shakespearean studies. Laura Bates decided to establish a teaching program in a supermax prison. While there, Bates meets a convicted murderer named Larry Newton who was kept in solitary confinement. Their unlikely relationship while studying Shakespeare is both moving and extraordinary. If you’re in the mood for an unconventional inspirational story, I recommend Shakespeare Saved My Life. Check out the unusual trailer below.

10 thoughts on “SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE: TEN YEARS IN SOLITARY WITH THE BARD By Laura Bates

    1. george Post author

      Jeff, I’ve had offers to teach in prisons over the years, but I passed on them. But reading SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE has me reconsidering…

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  1. Patti Abbott

    Reminds me of a film we saw not long ago about a group of prisoners who put on Julius Caesar. And did a great job. Sad at the end when they went back into their cells and you know they could have been so much more.

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  2. Richard R.

    This is cool. I wonder what will (did) he do once out of prison? In an environment that I assume is toxic to anything intellectual, it’s amazing that anyone wants to be taught anything requiring much real thought and study. I’ll bet he took a terrible ribbing (to use a kind word).

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