Book Review: Margareta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (eds). <em>The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Abstract
Ostovich's brilliantly layered analysis of The Magnetic Lady, however, we find Jonson staking out a position at the centre of patriarchal pretension, where women who slip from under male controls are shown to be stupidly transgressive, lascivious, duplicitous, 'leagued in a devilish compact', and inclined to infanticide ('The Appropriation of Pleasure in The Magnetic Lady', 106).But see also Simon Morgan-Russell's '"No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It": Male Expectation and Female Alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward Ho', where an alliance of 'citizen Wives' successfully establishes a powerful alternative to male homosociality, 83).Only occasionally, when women write for and about women, do they seem able to elide male claims of agency and dominion.Two late seventeenth-century women, for instance, found in the learning and rhetorical powers of Elizabeth I a viable model for women to emulate (Lisa Gim, '"Faire Eliza's Chaine": Two Female Writers' Literary Links to Queen Elizabeth'.)Harriette Andreadis, in 'The Erotics of Female Friendship in Early Modern England', works out with exquisite precision ways in which mostly high-born women in the late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-centuries allowed themselves to express female same-sex intimacy in the 'sexually evasive yet erotically charged language of female friendship' (241).See too, perhaps, Jessica Tvordi, 'Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night'.In life, if not in literature, however, even the remarkably successful and ferociously independent society of women founded by Mary Ward, though it was able to stave off episcopal authority and the constraints of women's religious communities for a time, was finally all but destroyed by papal power (Lowell Gallagher, 'Mary Ward's "Jesuitresses" and the Construction of a Typological Community').Nonetheless, as this anthology demonstrates so well, alliances in the early modern period formed by women, reinforced by the power of their own learning and intelligence, were able to accrue to themselves increased social and civic responsibility along with heightened realization of their own interior identities.
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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) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.111 | 0.109 |
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".