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Record W1964633368 · doi:10.1353/shb.2007.0035

As You Like It, and: Macbeth, and: The Tempest, and: Othello (review)

2007· article· en· W1964633368 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul Menzer

Bibliographic record

VenueShakespeare bulletin · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTempestArtLiterature

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Reviewed by: As You Like It, and: Macbeth, and: The Tempest, and: Othello Paul Menzer As You Like It Presented by the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia. June 16-December 1, 2006. Directed by Jim Warren. Assistant Director Jeremy Fiebig. Costume Designer Jenny McNee. Costumer Erin West. Music Director Paul Fidalgo. Fight Choreographer John Paul Scheidler. Original music by Paul Fidalgo, John Harrell, and James Keegan. With Sarah Fallon (Rosalind), Susan Heyward (Celia), Paul Fidalgo (Touchstone), Alvaro Mendoza (Orlando), Rene Thornton, Jr. (Oliver), James Keegan (Jacques de Boys, Adam, William, Sir Oliver Mar-text, Hymen), John Harrell (Duke Frederick), Jake Hart (Duke Senior, Charles, Corin), David Loar (Jaques), Celia Madeoy (Phebe, Dennis, Amiens), and Matthew Sincell (Le Beau, Audrey). Macbeth Presented by the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia. June 30-December 2, 2006. Directed by Ralph Alan Cohen. Assistant Director Jeremy Fiebig. Associate Director and Fight Choreographer John Paul Scheidler. Costume Designer Erin West. Costumer Jenny McNee. Music Director Paul Fidalgo. With Alvaro Mendoza (Macbeth), Celia Madeoy (Lady Macbeth), Rene Thornton, Jr. (Macduff, Bloody Captain), Sarah Fallon (Lady Macduff, 3rd Witch, Mentieth, Gentlewoman), David Loar (Duncan), Matthew Sincell (Malcolm), James Keegan (Banquo, Doctor, Siward), Susan Heyward (2nd Witch, Donalbain, Fleance, Young Macduff, Caithness), Jake Hart (1st Witch, Angus, Old Man), John Harrell (Hecate, Porter, Ross, Young Siward), and Paul Fidalgo (Lennox). The Tempest Presented by the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia. June 23-December 2, 2006. Directed by Giles Block. Assistant Director Jeremy Fiebig. Costume Designer Jenny McNee. Costumer Erin West. Music Director Paul Fidalgo. Fight Choreographer John Paul Scheidler. Dance Choreographer Colleen Kelly. Original music by Paul Fidalgo, John Harrell, and James Keegan. With David Loar (Prospero), Susan Heyward (Miranda), John Harrell (Ariel, Ceres), Jake Hart (Caliban), Alvaro Mendoza (Alonso, Iris), Matthew Sincell (Ferdinand), Rene Thornton, Jr. (Sebastian, Juno), Sarah Fallon (Antonio), Celia Madeoy (Gonzalo), James Keegan (Francisco, Stephano, Master), and Paul Fidalgo (Trinculo, Adrian, Boatswain). Othello Presented by the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia. September 1-December 3, 2006. Directed by Jim Warren. Assistant Director Jeremy Fiebig. Costume Designer Erin West. Costumer Jenny McNee. Music Director Paul Fidalgo. Fight Choreographer John Paul Scheidler. With Rene Thornton, Jr. (Othello), Sarah Fallon (Desdemona), James Keegan (Iago), Celia Madeoy (Emilia), Jake Hart (Cassio), Paul Fidalgo (Roderigo), Susan Heyward (Bianca, Clown), David Loar (Brabantio, Lodovico), Alvaro Mendoza (Duke, Gratiano), John Harrell (Montano, Senator), and Matthew Sincell (Senator). At the opening of an essay on "The Theatricality of Medieval English Plays" in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Theatre, Meg Twycross summarizes the conclusions drawn by a group of Toronto scholars who produced several pageants from the York Cycle under "original staging conditions": We have discovered, among other things, that actors can perform on a stage eight feet by ten feet; that twenty-foot-high pageant wagons are not necessarily doomed to overbalance; that long rhetorical speeches are not by definition "boring"; that spectacle can speak more strongly than words; that it is possible to look the audience full in the face. Above all, we have learnt to trust the plays themselves: that if we take them seriously as theatre, they will work. Medieval theatre has emerged not as childlike or primitive, but as different, and often highly sophisticated. (37) The quotation summarizes the best and worst of the "Original Practice" movement. On one hand, it hardly seems worth the trouble to rebuild pageant wagons to prove that the York Cycle was performed upon pageant wagons. We know that, and we know that these pageants worked because they played for centuries. We do not need to restage plays to prove that they were plays. On the other hand, I doubt I am alone in longing to have seen these productions. That is, if as a scholar of early English drama I am somewhat dubious about the discoveries of these productions, as a fan I am desperate to see them. In fact, a telling paradox—and one of the premises of this review of the American Shakespeare Center's 2006 Summer/Fall Season is that it may not be a paradox—is that while original practice...

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.730
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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