<i>richardthesecond</i>: Adapting Shakespeare to the Local in a Culture of Global Celebrity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay discusses how Matthew MacFadzean's richardthesecond adapts Shakespeare's Richard II to both popular American (or global) culture and local (Canadian) points of orientation. MacFadzean's solo multimedia performance treats sceptically both the notion that Shakespeare can be used as a high-culture defence against popular culture and Marshall McLuhan's proposition that Canada is an anti-environment that renders visible the United States' global environment. Instead, richardthesecond aligns culturally conservative views of Shakespeare with multinational corporate greed and implies that Canada cannot form a national identity that is wholly distinct from that of the United States. The play requires of its audience a sort of “triple vision,” or a fluency in Shakespeare and popular culture as well as a detailed understanding of Canadian culture. Ultimately, the demands that MacFadzean makes on his audience not only demonstrate the interpenetration of the global and the local but also expose the heterogeneity of local theatre communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".