. >> reporter: today they're analyzing "othello" in erin kaplan's introductory english class. >> thethat othello's a foreigner and the fact that he's in a higher office, and has a higher prestige wife makes him wanna do this because he feels that he should have all of this. >> i took it as when the duke made that statement, what he was saying because they kept describing othello especially iago and him as a moor as being evil, black is devilish, as you know, this thick-lipped person and so on and so forth. >> reporter: these 12 men are incarcerated at a new york state correctional facility in otisville. >> if it not be for some purpose of import give it me again. poor lady. she run mad when she will lack it. >> reporter: this class, and five others like it, are part of a pilot program called "the prison to college pipeline." to enroll, prisoners must have finished high school, pass a reading and writing assessment, and be eligible for release within five years. >> we have this idea that, possibly, in the three to five years prior to release, we want to seize on the high expectations,

i went to see, recently, a play for othello.nd having such an intimate knowledge of the play, a word for word knowledge, it is always great for me to see that play and see what choices people are making. to see what they are doing. how they are doing it. how it affects the rest of the play and the audience. you know, where they've hit with the humor, where they lost it. it's a fascinating thing to do. and part of it is holy, because i'm still within it. i know it's a well. charlie: we both talked about being in london and seeing benedict cumberbatch and hamlet. but because of the number of years i've been on the air with this program, 25 years, we've had a remarkable group of actors that have acted as hamlet. it has been a defining experience for them. livier, toy back to o take those different performances. you understand a bit about the craft of acting and playwriting. if you can take a play and see it done in so many different ways, all true to the text, but at the same time, understanding the creative imagination that goes i

and it was an adaptation of "othello," and the language of "othello"... >> mm-hmm. >> ...is something that -- you know, du bois was a master at language, a master at putting words on paper. and you go back to "eyewitness news," his mastery at speaking and talking. and one day he was sitting across from me, and somehow he had grown a beard. and i'm looking. and i said, "that guy -- that's -- i don't have to look any further." you know, it would have had to have been a major search, you know? "i don't have to look any further, but will he do it?" because, you know, we had talked about things, and i was just so pleased that he said, "i would love to. i would love to try it." >> yeah. and he's done it quite well. >> he is du bois. everybody -- the older generation who comes in to see the play -- louise patterson, who had been his friend -- had been du bois' friend -- said, "woodie, he sounds just like the good doctor. he sounds just like the good doctor." you know, you say, "wow." and then we'd go back and listen to the recordings of... >> du bois. >> ...du bois. so, i don't know -- you k

i'm a sure there will be a female othello soon. i love that. i think it's absolutely great.but it's changing. i've always said, don't worry about roles in drama -- well, do -- moan and complain, and i do. but really spend your energies on changing roles for women in real life because, as night follows day, as the roles for women in real life change, they will change in drama. and i really hope that we're going to see a female president in the next -- when are the elections? >> 2016. >> oh, not till then. a while. oh, next year! so i hope we see a female president next year. that would be absolutely fantastic and that would make a huge difference to the understanding of what women can be. >>> do you think you could pull off the accent for hillary clinton? >> she would be a wonderful person to play. somewhere down the line someone will do a story. because she has had -- well, she is an extraordinary trajectory and the brilliance, brilliance at handling her world and what unbelievable challenges she's had over the years. >> if you were to compare the two, the queen and hillary,

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