--- product_id: 7435787 title: "How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare" price: "£15.16" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/7435787-how-to-teach-your-children-shakespeare store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare **Price:** £15.16 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare - **How much does it cost?** £15.16 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/7435787-how-to-teach-your-children-shakespeare) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 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. Review: Oh my I love this book - Oh my I love this book. Let me start off by introducing myself. I'm an immigrant from Asia. My formal English training stopped in high school. (Except for some humanity courses I had to take in college). I came to the USA well into my teenage years and had some English as a foreign language classes prior. In the USA, I had awesome teachers, hence I advanced quickly through the ESL classes and after a year or so, I was put in a regular English class where I was introduced to Macbeth. I hated it!! Why? Because the English language was so hard. It was so frustrating and embarrassing to know how I barely made it through. I never understood what the fuss is about with Shakespeare, the Bard. Fast forwarding, I have two young kids. One with slight developmental delay, in second grade. The teacher had told me about the importance of language art education, so I thought.. why not try Shakespeare. It was more for myself. I read the first three chapters without a pause. The author just threw a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream. "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows". He makes you repeat it. Then he smoothly goes on to explain why he wrote the book. At some point, (I'm not referring back to the book as I am writing this review, so the order of what appears when is a bit blur, however,) he says two literatures are the bedrock of the modern civilization of the English speaking world. William Shakespeare and the King James' Bible. Then the following chapter(s), he breaks it down line by line. I never read nor watched on movie nor seen on a play A Midsummer Night's Dream. All the old English expressions explained along the way, in the sentences, within the context of the play. It is written in such an easily understood way, even I, a non-native English speaker came to appreciate the beauty that is locked within the words of the Poet. The author stresses on m-e-m-o-r-i-z-a-t-i-o-n. And yes, I hate memorization. In my childhood, I have developed an allergy to rote memorization. Why? To me, it was just a means to get a good score on the test. At some point I felt I lost creativity. However. The author stresses on memorization. You memorize, you repeat. Then you will understand. The author made me realize, rote memorization (of the lines from Shakespeare's plays) is one of the many tools not so much for academic achievement, but to enrich your life. My sons were never exposed to plays or heard of William Shakespeare. And there is the website that has lines to download, and oh my, the beautiful reading by the actors. The way the 'read', oh no, they speak from the heart the lines from Shakespeare. Bar none. I have bought some other books for children such as poetry, with CD's. They are great also, but the recording on the website for this book, the best. Who am I to critique, I'm not a native English speaker, but the language, the rhythm, it speaks to me at a different dimension. So as of today, I am hoping, through this book, my children will come to appreciate it and I hope that they will in the future be as witty and as observant as the Bard was, who knows. They will create their own play. And who knows. They will come to enrich other people's lives. I already know what I will be doing with my FIVE years old son. Draw. Have him use his imagination to draw the scene of the bank with the flowers. Spark his imagination. On the second note... Perhaps I can use author's techniques to teach my kids and myself King James' translation of the Bible. And by the way, I never received any commission or even free sample from the author or the publisher. I bought it straight from desertcart.com with my own money. Although, I would oh my, welcome invitation to bring my kids to see Shakespeare plays with someone who understands it, like the author. Review: Inspirational - This book is fantastic. The first two chapters have inspired me so much. I bought this book for myself as much as I did out of curiosity about the book. I am a homeschooling mom this year but also a certified teacher who will likely go back to the classroom next year. I was intrigued by the title, which inspired me to purchase it. It has always been something of an embarrassment to me that I was not exposed to much Shakespeare in school, save for memorizing a soliloquy in my 10th grade speech class years ago. I have always wanted to rectify that and study Shakespeare on my own. I bought this book for myself as much as to enrich my teen son’s literary education. I am thoroughly enjoying the book. The introduction by John Lithgow is equally as enchanting. I was reading it thinking, “What a childhood!” I’m looking forward to starting to memorize with my son. The writing in this book is light and bright and easy to read. I have found it exceptionally inspirational during a time when not much is feeling inspiring in my life. Thank you, Ken Ludwig, for a well-written and thoughtful book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #28,642 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Arts & Humanities Teaching Materials #7 in Shakespeare Literary Criticism #34 in Shakespeare Dramas & Plays | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 524 Reviews | ## Images ![How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jXU486XQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oh my I love this book *by L***A on November 17, 2015* Oh my I love this book. Let me start off by introducing myself. I'm an immigrant from Asia. My formal English training stopped in high school. (Except for some humanity courses I had to take in college). I came to the USA well into my teenage years and had some English as a foreign language classes prior. In the USA, I had awesome teachers, hence I advanced quickly through the ESL classes and after a year or so, I was put in a regular English class where I was introduced to Macbeth. I hated it!! Why? Because the English language was so hard. It was so frustrating and embarrassing to know how I barely made it through. I never understood what the fuss is about with Shakespeare, the Bard. Fast forwarding, I have two young kids. One with slight developmental delay, in second grade. The teacher had told me about the importance of language art education, so I thought.. why not try Shakespeare. It was more for myself. I read the first three chapters without a pause. The author just threw a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream. "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows". He makes you repeat it. Then he smoothly goes on to explain why he wrote the book. At some point, (I'm not referring back to the book as I am writing this review, so the order of what appears when is a bit blur, however,) he says two literatures are the bedrock of the modern civilization of the English speaking world. William Shakespeare and the King James' Bible. Then the following chapter(s), he breaks it down line by line. I never read nor watched on movie nor seen on a play A Midsummer Night's Dream. All the old English expressions explained along the way, in the sentences, within the context of the play. It is written in such an easily understood way, even I, a non-native English speaker came to appreciate the beauty that is locked within the words of the Poet. The author stresses on m-e-m-o-r-i-z-a-t-i-o-n. And yes, I hate memorization. In my childhood, I have developed an allergy to rote memorization. Why? To me, it was just a means to get a good score on the test. At some point I felt I lost creativity. However. The author stresses on memorization. You memorize, you repeat. Then you will understand. The author made me realize, rote memorization (of the lines from Shakespeare's plays) is one of the many tools not so much for academic achievement, but to enrich your life. My sons were never exposed to plays or heard of William Shakespeare. And there is the website that has lines to download, and oh my, the beautiful reading by the actors. The way the 'read', oh no, they speak from the heart the lines from Shakespeare. Bar none. I have bought some other books for children such as poetry, with CD's. They are great also, but the recording on the website for this book, the best. Who am I to critique, I'm not a native English speaker, but the language, the rhythm, it speaks to me at a different dimension. So as of today, I am hoping, through this book, my children will come to appreciate it and I hope that they will in the future be as witty and as observant as the Bard was, who knows. They will create their own play. And who knows. They will come to enrich other people's lives. I already know what I will be doing with my FIVE years old son. Draw. Have him use his imagination to draw the scene of the bank with the flowers. Spark his imagination. On the second note... Perhaps I can use author's techniques to teach my kids and myself King James' translation of the Bible. And by the way, I never received any commission or even free sample from the author or the publisher. I bought it straight from Amazon.com with my own money. Although, I would oh my, welcome invitation to bring my kids to see Shakespeare plays with someone who understands it, like the author. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspirational *by T***A on March 25, 2021* This book is fantastic. The first two chapters have inspired me so much. I bought this book for myself as much as I did out of curiosity about the book. I am a homeschooling mom this year but also a certified teacher who will likely go back to the classroom next year. I was intrigued by the title, which inspired me to purchase it. It has always been something of an embarrassment to me that I was not exposed to much Shakespeare in school, save for memorizing a soliloquy in my 10th grade speech class years ago. I have always wanted to rectify that and study Shakespeare on my own. I bought this book for myself as much as to enrich my teen son’s literary education. I am thoroughly enjoying the book. The introduction by John Lithgow is equally as enchanting. I was reading it thinking, “What a childhood!” I’m looking forward to starting to memorize with my son. The writing in this book is light and bright and easy to read. I have found it exceptionally inspirational during a time when not much is feeling inspiring in my life. Thank you, Ken Ludwig, for a well-written and thoughtful book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really cool *by N***E on October 1, 2025* This was a book in my kids homeschool curriculum and it's really cool. It has you and your kid learning and memorizing Shakespeare. I really enjoyed this book and watching my kid perform the lines. ## Frequently Bought Together - How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare - Complete Shakespeare - A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories: 12 Tales from the world's most famous playwright (Volume 3) (World Full of..., 3) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/7435787-how-to-teach-your-children-shakespeare](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/7435787-how-to-teach-your-children-shakespeare) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-06-03*