One Uddah Midʻsummah
Hawaiian Pidgin (Hawaiian Creole English) adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Translator: Jackie Pualani Johnson
Shakespeare
Colloquial Shakespeare
Side-by-side original and vernacular adaptations — with audio where available.
Shakespeare’s language is the English spoken in his own time. Characters from different backgrounds and social strata speak their version, which also varied based being from different parts of England, or even London. Carrying on that tradition, here are samples of putting Shakespeare into a current vernacular of our time.