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Watch King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest FREE-OF-CHARGE using our Stratford on Film production presented alongside Shakespeare’s text.

(NOTE: The Tempest and Othello PerformancePlus does not include the complete production. You can access The Tempest here and Othello here.)

Each PerformancePlus resource includes video interviews with cast and creative team members, discussion questions and lesson plans.

How To Use PerformancePlus
Below, we’ve shared step-by-step directions and highlighted some of the key features for both virtual and in-person learning.

1) Click on the play you want to see. 

2) You’ll see the script on the left and the film on the right. Click “Start Video” to play the first scene. 
- As the film plays, the lines are highlighted in yellow as they are spoken.
- Unfamiliar terms appear in blue; the definitions appear when you hover over them.
- Directors’ cuts are shaded in gray – you can click “show” to see what they chose to exclude.

3) Using the red bars at the top, you can:
- select a scene (if you click this, you can use the navigation bar that appears on the left to select scenes by act and to go directly to some of the bonus features);
- go to discussion questions or lesson plans for each act;
- watch interviews about the play’s themes with cast and creative team members from the production.

Tailor PerformancePlus to Suit Your Current Learning Mode
• Watching the film scene-by-scene works well for both synchronous and asynchronous learning, at home or at school.
• The discussion questions, organized into five acts, provide a great platform for learning when engaging with the play synchronously, but they can also be used as prompts for students to respond to independently.
• The artistic insights videos provide students with the opportunity to think more deeply and analytically about some of the themes from the play; invite students to explore a few of these on their own.
• The lesson plans are a great fit for in-person learning.

Support for PerformancePlus is generously provided by The John and Myrna Daniels Charitable Foundation.