Arden: Shakespeare in a gaming environment

If you have a copy of the latest Neverwinter Nights game (yay NN!!!), you can install an Arden add-on which adds virtual worlds to your game based on Shakespearean plays.  This world was created by Dr. Edward Castronova and others who work at the University of Indiana in the Synthetic Worlds Institute.  Wouldn't you like to be able to say you work at that institute?  :)

The characters in Arden speak the Shakespearean language they were created to speak.  Dr. Castronova admits that one thing got forgotten--the monsters and puzzles that make gaming an attractive environment.  Right now, Arden is much like Second Life--you can go there, look around, enjoy the scenery, talk to anyone else who happens to be there, but there is no objective as such.  They will be rectifying that with Arden II (yes, that's right, Arden II).