Is it irony?

On the cover of the copy of King Lear that we were handed, it says NEWLY REVISED EDITION highlighted in gold. Sure it may have been newly revised, but I'm thinking that it should be translated into today's language. Screw Shakespeare and his own language. If I'm supposed to know what it's talking about and it's in a completely different dialect, how do you think that's going to go? Maybe Rosinski's wicked "brainy students" will be able to figure it out. But apparently, when it comes to understanding Shakespeare, I am not one of those "brainy students." Sorry. 

~KD