Bring Shakespeare to life for your students with this account of his boyhood, and the places and events that were influential in his development. Seven broadsheets and hands-on documents will help students’ knowledge grow as they travel with young Shakespeare from home to school to London. Historian: John Langdon-Davies. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• Home
• School
• Shakespeare Learns to Write
• Heroes
• Books
• Games
• Young Shakespeare Goes to London

• Engraving of football as it was played in Italy in the 16th-century.
• Page from Holinshed’s Chronicle, 1577, illustrating the source of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
• John Norden’s maps of London and Westminster, 1593.
• Composite photograph of Elizabethan buildings known to Shakespeare.
• Page from The Book of Sir Thomas More, thought to be in Shakespeare’s own hand, with transcription.
• Engraving of Shakespeare by Droeshout from the First Folio of 1623.
• Examples of contemporary handwriting and writing-books.