This year’s exciting programme is focusing on embedding Shakespeare across the curriculum and allowing teachers and home educators to create a Shakespeare Week as they like it! Pupils can explore a range cross-curricular resources focusing on three of Shakespeare's most well-loved plays - 'Macbeth', 'The Tempest' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - as well as information about the man himself. Alongside these fabulous resources, all of our online workshops - including poetry with Michael Rosen, art school with Martin Brown and character speeches - are absolutely free to access on our website!
What to Expect for Shakespeare Week 2026
Shakespeare Week highlights include a day of free workshops for Warwickshire school children and a new online exhibition. Additionally, a wealth of new cross-curricular digital resources will be published, providing home educators and teachers with invaluable tools to teach Shakespeare in creative outlets, all for free!
Our 2026 interactive online exhibition ‘In his mind's eye’ features some of Shakespeare’s iconic plays and show how his stories and characters have inspired artists and creatives for hundreds of years. Children’s illustrators including Marcia Williams and Jane Ray have used their own mind's eye (imagination) to create fabulous pieces of artwork.
Shakespeare Week 2026 Competition
Once you've looked at how the plays have inspired the artists, it's time to see what's in your mind's eye! Our competition for this year asks you to create your own piece of amazing art inspired by one of our three focus plays. Find all of the information on how to enter here!
'Shakespeare Week has become one of my favourite times of the year. To witness the excitement and enthusiasm the wonderful team at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust sprinkle like fairy dust amongst the children is a joy to behold. If William Shakespeare is a National Treasure then Shakespeare Week is the perfect way to share his wisdom and wonder with a new generation.'
Marcia Williams - author, illlustrator and Shakespeare Week patron