PRISONERS’ TASTES
SHAKESPEARE AND SHAW LONDON, June 7. Few men with. hobbies are ever put in gaol, says the annual report of the prison commissioners,' and the greatest need of prison inmates is a hobby. What women convicts especially appreciate is lessons and classes, because they give the women something to do besides gossip and scandalise. Shakespeare and Shaw are the most favoured authors with prisoners. The men are unable to understand Galsworthy, Sheridan and Goldsmith, but seize readily on the broad humanity of Shakespeare’s heroes and villains, and understand and enjoy Shaw’s chaz’acters. Poetry, not necessarily of the narrative typo, is also very popular.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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