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Record W1994473891 · doi:10.3138/md.49.2.223

Allegories from the Past: Stoppard’s Uses of History

2006· article· en· W1994473891 on OpenAlex
Christopher Innes

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDramaLiteratureHistoryReputationSet (abstract data type)Performance artArtArt historySociology

Abstract

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The surprising thing about Tom Stoppard is that – for all his reputation as a “cutting edge” dramatist, dealing with highly contemporary issues, tackling immediately relevant themes – i n his whole d ramatic output there a re on ly four full-length stage plays actually set in the present. These are Night and Day and Jumpers and Hapgood, along with his ironically titled, semi-autobiographical The Real Thing and his very first play, Enter a Free Man – although Stoppard has dismissed this as an amalgam of other people’s plays. Eighteen of his remaining nineteen full-length plays are set wholly or at least partially in the past, qualifying him for the title “historical playwright,” a fact that makes him quite unusual among major twentieth-century British playwrights. There are, of course, others who have turned to historical subjects, among them Edward Bond and Caryl Churchill. Yet neither of these has set more than one in three of their dramas in the past, and Churchill, for example, moves away from the historical, with most of her history plays being clustered in her early career. Perhaps the only playwright who has anything approaching the same weight of historical drama in his total output is Peter Barnes, whose plays are set in eras so distant and different from our own that the effect is estranging.

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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)0.000
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.835
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.034
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.170 · 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