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Shakespeare’s Life and Times

Subject: Literacy/Storytelling, Shakespeare

Age Group: KS1, KS2

Region: London/Greater London, North West, West Midlands

Discover the playwright: his life in Stratford and London, the Tudor period in which he wrote and his remarkable literary legacy.

One facilitator visits your school in role as the magical ‘spirit’ Ariel from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest to lead children on a journey to discover more about the man behind the quill and recreating Shakespeare’s Globe theatre for themselves.

Important Events Link

  • Shakespeare Week (21st-27th March 2022)
  • Shakespeare’s Birthday, 1564 (23rd April)
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Details

  • Length of session: 60 minutes

  • Price: £142 + VAT

  • Number of Children: up to 30

  • Extra children are negotiable

  • All facilitators are DBS checked

Curriculum Link

  • Shakespeare, History - the context of Tudor England in Shakespeare’s life

Key Areas

  • The details of Shakespeare’s life: timeline

  • Key characters from his plays

  • Genres

  • The Globe Theatre

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