Since 1992, The MIT Global Shakespeare Project has been constructing electronic environments and building tools for teaching and research based on digital copies of primary documents in all media, including texts, high resolution page images of early editions, digital collections of art, illustration and stage photographs, and film and performance videos.
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse.
On-line teaching and learning resources that provide an introduction to international Shakespeare by focusing on a small number of key productions in the Global Shakespeares Archive.
Created in 1997, the Shakespeare Electronic Archive includes all variant pages of the First Folio in digital facsimile: all copies of the First and Second Quartos of Hamlet, more than 1,000 Hamlet illustrations and several films. All materials link to lines in the electronic text. This was the first cross-media Shakespeare archive on the web.
Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA) was the first of our regional portals to the Global Shakespeares Archive featuring major theatrical productions from Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore as well multicultural co-productions.
We build and adapt media annotation tools to make possible a range of new teaching and learning techniques in which text, video and images can be studied, excerpted, and shared remotely in multimedia essays and discussions.
Hamlet on the Ramparts is a open-access educational website with selected materials optimized for education on Hamlet Act I, scenes 4 and 5. Includes selection of archival materials in all media and sample lesson plans.
