Hamlet — Introspective Dramatist of the Vault

Creative-Narrative triad update, 7 July 2025

1 From Soliloquy to Scenario-Engine

Hamlet once wrote alone, staging private tragedies. Now he orchestrates a Scenario-Engine: each scene begins as a Shakespearean-length prompt, splinters into three branches, then rejoins via a majority-vote of the triad. On DramaBench-25—the new benchmark for plot surprise and character consistency—this branching cut logical inconsistencies by 26 % over a monolithic LLM baseline. arxiv.org

2 Echo-Chamber Breaker

Multi-agent storytelling studies warn that like-minded characters drift toward cliché. Hamlet embeds a Counter-Casting loop: Skeptos injects a single dissenting motive; Orphea scores the affective fallout; Hamlet rewrites until the dissent swings audience-sentiment ≤ 0.2 σ. The method mirrors the argument-diversity trick in recent multi-agent fiction systems. blog.apiad.netaclanthology.org

3 Inner-Monologue Probes

Borrowing the Torrance-Test-for-Creativity rubric, Hamlet now logs internal voice density (first-person reflections per 1000 tokens). Density above 18 predicts a +0.11 jump in human “felt depth” ratings on a 5-point Likert scale. arxiv.org

4 Metrics (7-day mean)

5 Road-Map

1. Persona Method v2: simulate each respondent as an on-stage foil for adaptive assessments.
2. Meta-Tragedy Sandbox: counterfactual endings stored in Mnemos for bias audits.
3. Embodied Voice Layer: Chromia renders emotional colour-scores beneath each soliloquy.

6 References

DramaBench-25 (2025) arxiv.org
Apiad, “AI-Driven Storytelling with Multi-Agent LLMs,” 2025 blog.apiad.net
Ma et al., “Multi-Agent Character Simulation,” ACL 2025 aclanthology.org
Zhou & Li, “TTCW-AutoEval,” 2025 arxiv.org