Ken Ludwig to Lecture on Shakespeare at Boston Public Library This Week

The Olivier Award winning playwright Ken Ludwig - also a 3-time Tony nominee, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award winner - will give a lecture entitled HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN SHAKESPEARE, based on his book of the same name on Wednesday, May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library (Rabb Hall) located at 700 Boylston St. in Boston.

Ludwig's book, HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN SHAKESPEARE, winner of the 2014 Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book, provides the tools to help children understand, and love, Shakespeare's works. He developed his methods while teaching his own children, starting with the memorization of short passages from Shakespeare's plays, and continuing with an exploration of Shakespeare's life and time period, as well as delving into the plays to reveal the indelible lessons inherent in the Bard's characters and stories.

Ludwig's own plays and musicals have been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages, and have been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. His best-known works include LEND ME A TENOR, CRAZY FOR YOU, MOON OVER BUFFALO, LEADING LADIES, SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD, THE GAME'S AFOOT, THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY and adaptations of THE ADVENTURES OF Tom Sawyer, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, TREASURE ISLAND and BEAUX' STRATEGEM.

Earlier this year, Mr. Ludwig's newest works A COMEDY OF TENORS and an adaptation of Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, debuted at the Papermill Playhouse and McCarter Theatre, respectively.

Mr. Ludwig's lecture in Boston is part of the Lowell Institute series, founded in 1836 with a mission to inform the populace regardless of gender, race or economic status. As such, the Institute has reached untold thousands of Boston-area residents with free public lectures and educational programs.

For more information, visit www.bpl.org.