. >> professor laura bates from indiana state university has been volunteering in prisons for more thans. she founded a unique program called "shakespeare in the shu." >> we chose "macbeth" as our main text for a lot of important reasons. the idea of looking at the choices that this character makes, someone who is in aristotle's terms a tragic hero. he's a noble man, an honorable man, a good man who made bad choices. >> i'm in prison for murder. um, i got 60 years for murder. got 60 years for the murder that i'm in here on now. >> i will say for whiskey, to recruit these gutter tramps. two murders. they ain't trained and they are going against banquo, this symbol, right? what i'm saying is, that's risky, right? >> everything he's doing from the beginning to the end of this play is risky. once he decided to take that turn to go back, he got so much to lose, you know what i'm saying? so he's risking everything from that point on. yeah, he's taking risks. >> for every action, there's a reaction. so i can relate to macbeth by the choices he made, for taking his punishment, no matter how muc