Shakespeare is boring...
Dylan Thomas is boring!!!!
Oh no it’s not!
Making Shakespeare and other authors fun is the aim of Shakespeare Week (16 - 22 March) where schools are encouraged to take part in lots of different events.
Last year 3,000 schools took part and this year the number is rapidly approaching 6,500.
6,500 schools with pupils of all ages making use of the huge resources available on
www.shakespeareweek.org.uk
Sign up and pupils gets a Passport to Shakespeare with lots of interesting facts and worksheets.
Where does Dylan come into this? Well, Dylan’s first introduction to literature was his father reading him Shakespeare from the age of four!
Dylan referred to Shakespeare as
'The roaring majesty of words.'
FUN FACT
It is documented that Dylan could recite large passages from Shakespeare from an early age and at Mrs. Hole's Dame School in nearby Mirador Crescent he stunned classmates when reciting what he called 'my grave poem' at the age of 7,
he intoned,
'Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Mark sorrow on the bosom of the earth...'
(An extract from Shakespeare's Richard II)
One of the great things about Shakespeare Week is that you are not restricted to using his work. So we at the
Dylan's Birthplace have teamed up with the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to offer some great programmes.
Come and join us and find out about the many great stories and poems that were inspired by Dylan's childhood at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive including;
Hunchback in the Park
Patricia Edith and Arnold
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Come and immerse yourself in his tiny bedroom and marvel at how he became such a prolific teenage writer.
We’ll give you some suggested lesson outlines and a programme that can include a visit to neighbouring Cwmdonkin Park; Dylan's
'World within the world of the sea-town.'
FUN FACT
Nearly two-thirds of the known material that Dylan created whilst living at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was utilised in his published works!
