The Shakespeare Electronic Archive (SEA) based at MIT has pioneered the development of multimedia digital resources in Shakespeare studies, with an extraordinary record in creating prototype systems for classroom use and in building collections that combine electronic texts and extensive collections of art, film, and digital facsimiles of early editions. We intend to build from this earlier work in order to: Expand the educational usefulness of the digital collections by creating new tools (or if feasible, adapting existing ones) that will allow users to create their own organizations and representations of the archive's contents. We envision students and faculty both creating multimedia documents that reference the collections' contents in innovative ways and add their own interpretations and linkages. Create software tools that allow people to use the archive collaboratively over the Internet. For example, we might develop tools that facilitate classes in different locations collaborating in a discussion about variants in the text of a play or different interpretations by film directors. Extend the collection to make the archives accessible to much larger populations by adding materials that are unencumbered by restrictions imposed by IP owners, are in the public domain, or are widely available at low cost to users. Extend our work in this area by expanding its scope and creating The MIT Film-Text Archive of Shakespeare Films and other Literary Adaptations for the World Wide Web (FTA). The new project will use commercially published films on DVD to create a system in which films based on well-known or frequently taught literary works can be viewed on the same screen as the texts they enact, adapt or interpret, and film and text can be precisely aligned for comparison.