2026/04/22 by Ella Montgomery, Alexandra Montgomery · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism #Theatre and Performance Studies
paper · doi:10.26083/tuda-7998
openalex publication_date 2026/04/22 · openalex created_date 2026/05/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
This study operationalizes the modernization of Shakespeare as a measurable act of localization. By analyzing parallel corpora of “Hamlet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” using a novel Triangulation protocol, this study analyzes the semantic drift inherent in contemporary educational modernizations of the bard. The results reveal a significant genre gap. While the logical propositions of tragedy demonstrate high semantic reversibility, the specific imagery of comedy suffers from modernization choices that resolve ambiguity and flatten aesthetic form.