filmshakespeare.org is dedicated to exploring how the web
and web technologies can be used to teach Shakespeare and to
encourage students to explore the relationships between play
and screenplay, text and film, art and industry.
Coming Soon: Adaptedplay XML Application
Note: the upload piece is now working as expected. Currently working on documentation and tutorials. -- status
In the meantime, please browse the plays that are currently available:
Moby Text Only
Adapted
Future Functionality
Download the text for any of the plays, markup the text to highlight the content used for a particular adaptation
or adapt the play for your own purpose, and then upload the results for viewing (and re-editing) by others.
Who will be able to contribute?
- Anyone will be able to contribute texts to the generic filmshakespeare.org text pool.
- Teachers will be able create pools dedicated to their students... fully controlling who can contribute,
deciding which texts the students can edit, and granting final approval before any student's submission can be
seen by the rest of the world.
What will the final result look like?
- Users will be able to filter the texts by a combination of scenes and characters.
- Different adaptations marked up in the same text will be highlighted by different font styles, colors, etc. to make it easy
to tell which text is used (or not used) by each adaptation.
How will this help students learn?
- Actively editing plays for length or content or audience will give students a greater understanding of the plays and of the process of adapting plays for stage or screen.
- Being able to compare the text used by various adaptations should help emphasize that the texts can be adapted in an infinite number of ways, with each adaptation
offering a relection of society at the time the adaptation was created and of the creative and commercial processes that brought the plays to life.