Stewart Parker's <i>Heavenly Bodies: </i>Dion Boucicault, Show Business, and Ireland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Belfast playwright Stewart Parker conceived his 1986 play Heavenly Bodies near the beginning of his career as a dramatist, wrote it when he was at the height of his powers, and revised it as one of the last acts of his professional life. Throughout the long genesis of this stage biography of the Victorian melodramatist Dion Boucicault, Parker used his play to focus his own recurring questions about the price of popular success and the responsibility of a playwright to his own place and people. Over time he came to see Boucicault less as a remarkable individual and more as a figure emblematic both of the demoralized condition of Ireland in the nineteenth century and of the plight of the artist in an inhospitable era. Like Boucicault, Parker was an Irishman who lived and produced plays in North America and England as well as in Ireland, and his subject's "equivocal lrishness" exerted a continued fascination for him. In Parker's opinion, Boucicault's nationality was central to an understanding of his career because, "[l]ike many Irish writers before and after him, he had tumbled headlong out of the country at an early age, only to find his imagination eventually returning there for its truest inspiration”.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.002 |
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".