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Set Me Free: The Story of How Shakespeare Saved A Life

✍ Scribed by Striano, Salvatore; Maher, Brigid

Book ID
109854096
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
955 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925498806

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

How Shakespeare Saved My Life is a story about betrayal, forgiveness and, above all, the transformative power of reading.

SasΓ  grew up in Naples. He never went to school, and instead grew up with street violence and bloodshed, becoming the leader of a gang of boys who became Camorristi by the age of fourteen. At the age of thirty, he was in prison, his life all but mapped out.

That's when Shakespeare steps in. At SasΓ 's most hopeless point, he is persuaded to join the prison's drama troupe. In Shakespeare's Tempest , SasΓ  stumbles on what he needs to explain the world which has defined his own life.

Salvatore Striano was born in 1972 in Naples. During a stint in prison, he discovered a love of reading and theatre. Striano is now a successful actor and has had a number of roles in cinema and TV, including Cesare deve morire , based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival).

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