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According to Shakespeare Quarterly, Bard Box "periodically posts the best animations, mash-ups, student projects, soliloquies and even campaigning films relating to Shakespeare performance, all curated by McKernan. Each video post is accompanied by a set of basic metadata, including title, date, cast and credits, as well as a brief description of the film and its main points of interest. McKernan also uses the “Categories” feature of Wordpress templates to organize the various types of videos but warns that “there is not a set of controlled terms used”: currently, the sidebar features categories ranging from “experimental” and “eggs” (which contains not one but two adaptations performed by eggs) alongside “Star Wars” and “street Shakespeare.” A tag cloud of Shakespeare’s works also orients the user.

BardBox is largely the product of a single expert curator, rendering it cohesive as a collection but closed to the kind of user input that would make it a rich pedagogical tool. Nonetheless, the structure of the collection engages with common web literacies by distributing its content via an RSS feed, both through the WordPress blog and by “favoriting” the chosen clips on YouTube. These functionalities are not trivial: syndicating content makes it active and portable. Instead of having to visit the website to check for new videos (although one may still do this), the user can subscribe to BardBox to be notified of new content via a feedreader, some of which send updates to “live bookmarks” or email. Suddenly, an otherwise static archive becomes mobile across different platforms and devices."

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