Home, Exile, and Unease in Brian Friel’s Globalized Drama since 1990: <i>Molly Sweeney, The Home Place</i>, and <i>Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen)</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: The Irish playwright Brian Friel has often explored the same dynamic and unique event of place as phenomenologist Edward Casey explored in his writings. In Molly Sweeney (1994), Friel shows how this supposedly “disabled” woman gains agency through creating conversations between the living and the dead and thus populating her mind with a rich community. In The Home Place (2005), Friel elegizes the dislocated landlord Christopher Gore and suggests that Margaret and the local singers are briefly liberated from their poverty while singing Thomas Moore’s music. In his Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen) (2008), Friel affirms the imagination through the emplaced collaboration between Thea Elvsted and George Tesman, a collaboration that will help them recreate Eilert Loevborg’s manuscript (even as Hedda kills herself, representing the death-dance of frenetic modernity). In these plays written during Ireland’s rapid globalization, Friel privileges dynamic, often heterogeneous communities that transcend time, space, and gender through the imagination.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".