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Set me free, how Shakespeare saved my life, by Salvatore Striano (translated from the Italian by Brigid Maher)

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Set me free

by Salvatore Striano (translated from the Italian by Brigid Maher)

how Shakespeare saved my life

Sasá 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 Sasá's most hopeless point, he is persuaded to join the prison's drama troupe. In Shakespeare's Tempest, Sasá stumbles on what he needs to explain the world which has defined his own life.How Shakespeare Saved My Life is a story about betrayal, forgiveness and, above all, the transformative power of reading