Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article explores competing visions of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Canadian television series Slings & Arrows (2003–2006). I argue that Slings & Arrows displays both adulation and irreverence toward Shakespeare's text, putting it to new uses even as it considers critically the place of the theater in contemporary culture. My argument sees the series’ depiction of “base” material things—especially those connected to the body—as of special importance for its strategy to explore both the place of the text and crucial themes of Shakespeare's tragedy. In its behind-the-scenes theatrical world, Slings & Arrows makes use of ignoble materiality (everyday objects and the human body with all its flaws, rather than economic advantage) in order to hint at the transcendent. Even as Slings & Arrows depicts the danger that the text can be reduced to just a material object or a commodity, it also shows, for the actors of the New Burbage Festival as well as for the television audience, how Hamlet might also be a spur to meaningful action and a source of living artistic integrity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".