Why it's best to experience Shakespeare in your salad days by Lyn Gardner

Helen Mirren thinks that you need to be a teenager to enjoy Shakespeare, but the sooner children encounter the plays in performance the less likely they will dismiss them as difficult and dullAt what age should children first experience Shakespeare's plays? Last week I was at a primary school in Birmingham where a troupe of RSC actors were performing a pared-down version of both parts of Henry IV and Henry V as part …

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