Analysis reveals genre gap in modernization choices of Shakespeare in educational settings, indicating complexities in tragedy and comedy.
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.
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