Cable in the Classroom, the educational arm of the cable industry, contracted IK to show how traditional education can be enhanced by multi-media delivered via broadband Internet. The target audience is middle school and high school students, but the content is also fun for anyone familiar with Shakespeare and curious about the 17th century process of producing and printing his plays.
Launched in 2003, the site features multi-media and interactive games to present concepts about Shakespeare’s writing process and the changes to his work caused by the conversion of his texts from handwritten pages to print. Video from Richard Burton’s interpretation of Hamlet from the 1960s and Campbell Scott’s production from 2000 are compared and contrasted in a compelling series of activities titled “From Stage to Screen.” Source documents dating to Elizabethan times to uncover the many changes that have been introduced to Shakespeare’s works since his original handwritten plays were produced by Lord Chamberlain’s men.
