Splitting Images: Samuel Beckett's <i>Nacht und Träume</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
No area of Samuel Beckett's work has received less attention than his television drama, and the least studied of his six teleplays is Nacht und Träume . Although the premiere broadcast of Nacht und Träume attracted an audience of two million, the teleplay is rarely seen today except at Beckett festivals and modem drama conferences. Nor should one expect a "Beckett revival" on commercial television any time soon. Envisioning such a revival, Eckart Voigts- Virchow cleverly hypothesizes that the ratings would "rocket through the floor." One expects mainstream resistance to works like Nacht und Träume, which challenge television's formulaic conventions and passive viewing habits. What is more puzzling, however, is the slight attention paid this teleplay within Beckett circles. Even among the author's most dependable champions, Nacht und Träume has been dismissed too easily. Martin Esslin, for instance, concedes that it offers an "extremely powerful" image, but concludes that it is, "for my taste, somewhat too sentimental." Beryl and John Fletcher accuse Nacht und Träume of being less visually interesting than Beckett's other teleplays, and they voice doubt as to "whether this script makes for a successful or effective use of the medium." Even James Knowlson, who praises the teleplay unconditionally, has a difficult time locating its specific appeal.
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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
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| 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
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