{"id":2057,"date":"2015-10-27T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:57:02","slug":"shakespearean-family-fun-this-half-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/shakespearean-family-fun-this-half-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespearean Family Fun this Half Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This half term, our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/-ShakespearesGlobe?source=95855&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=shakespearesglobe\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe<\/a> have plenty of Shakespearean family fun including Stage fighting, Elizabethan dressing and play printing. Enjoy these videos that give you a great flavour of what you can expect. These demonsatrations are included in the exhibition and tour experience.\u00a0 To buy your tickets for this half term, <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/nJM7hn\">click here<\/a> and introduce the kids to Shakespeare!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shakespeareglovejd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2107\" alt=\"shakespeareglovejd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shakespeareglovejd.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shakespeareglovejd.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/10\/shakespeareglovejd-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabethan Dressing<\/strong><br \/>\nUsing clothes from the Globe Theatre wardrobe, we\u2019ll explain the intricacies of dressing and the significance of clothing in Elizabethan society. Do you know\u00a0the origin of the phrases \u2018straight-laced\u2019, \u2018loose women\u2019 or \u2018pin money\u2019? And what did Shakespeare\u2019s contemporaries use as a stain remover? All will be be revealed as you watch a volunteer (it could be you!) be dressed as a character from a Shakespeare play.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-otsn6mXhM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage Fighting<\/strong><br \/>\nWatch an exciting demonstration of Elizabethan stage combat techniques including an explanation of how stage fighting was used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Early Modern plays<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fn-UGVcmQvk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Printing the plays:<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that hardly anything written in Shakespeare&#8217;s hand survives today but Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe have his plays and poems only because they were printed as books. Using a full-size recreation of a 17th- century printing press, you and the kids will be shown the amazingly sophisticated methods behind making books. You&#8217;ll discover the remarkable and precarious journey of playwrights\u2019 words from the stage to the page.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hydo6dJgJSY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking for ideas for the rest of half term, check out Things to Do and our weekly <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/FukvDo\">What&#8217;s On<\/a> blog too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This half term, our friends at Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe have plenty of Shakespearean family fun including Stage fighting, Elizabethan dressing and play printing. Enjoy these videos that give you a great flavour of what you can expect. These demonsatrations are included in the exhibition and tour experience.\u00a0 To buy your tickets for this half term, click &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/shakespearean-family-fun-this-half-term\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiring-families","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}