Stratford Festival launches new Shakespeare online tool kit

The Stratford Festival is commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death by making his plays accessible to a generation raised on the Internet.

The festival just unveiled an online teaching platform through stratfordfestival.ca/Learn, that will include each of Shakespeare’s scripts, a film clip of every scene and notes to understand each piece of dialogue.

“King Lear” is the first play to be offered and more titles will be added as part of the festival’s move to capture on film the complete works of Shakespeare over the next 10 years. Created by the Festival’s Education Department in collaboration with D2L Corporation, the tool kit — called PerformancePlus — is targeted for high school students and teachers.