How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare, by a Tony Award-winning playwright-now featuring two new chapters

"You and your children will be transformed by the magic and mystery of Shakespeare and his stories in an instant."-Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE

Winner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book

To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. His plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poems, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare's death in 1616-from Pride and Prejudice to The Godfather-are heavily influenced by Shakespeare's stories, characters, language, and themes. In How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, acclaimed playwright Ken Ludwig provides the tools you need to inspire an understanding, and a love, of Shakespeare's works in your children, and to have fun together along the way.

Ken Ludwig devised his friendly, easy-to-master methods while teaching his own children. Beginning with memorizing short passages from the plays, his technique then instills children with cultural references they will utilize for years to come. Ludwig's approach includes understanding of the time period and implications of Shakespeare's diction as well as the invaluable lessons behind his words and stories. Colorfully incorporating the history of Shakespearean theater and society, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare guides readers on an informed and adventurous journey through the world in which the Bard wrote.

This book's simple process allows anyone to impart to children the wisdom of plays like A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. And there's fun to be had throughout. Shakespeare novices and experts and readers of all ages will each find something delightfully irresistible in How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare.

KEN LUDWIG is an internationally acclaimed playwright who has had numerous hits on Broadway, in London s West End, and throughout the world. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards (England s highest theater honor), received three Tony Award nominations, and won two Helen Hayes Awards and the Edgar Award. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been performed in at least thirty countries in over twenty languages. Some of his Broadway and West End shows include Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, Twentieth Century, and adaptations of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theater history at Cambridge University in England. Visit him at www.kenludwig.com.

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ISBN 13	9780307951502
ISBN 10	0307951502
Title	How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Author	Ken Ludwig
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2014-07-01
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Falstaff Award 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.