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Record W2011764294 · doi:10.1093/notesj/gjv032

John Dennis's Dramatis Personea

2015· article· en· W2011764294 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNotes and Queries · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryCharacter (mathematics)DramaStyle (visual arts)ScholarshipLiteratureClassicsLawArtArchaeology

Abstract

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PERFORMED in London throughout the spring of 1704, John Dennis’s Liberty Asserted is based on events that occurred in Canada half a decade earlier during King Williams War.1 This note identifies an unnoted source for this new world drama’s dramatis personae, indexing, in the process, the international roots of the play’s nationalist vision and the curious cosmopolitanism of early eighteenth-century English drama. Significant English and Anglo-American literary studies scholarship on Liberty Asserted has appeared over the last half century. Scholars, though, have yet to observe that Dennis found two of his prominent characters’ names in a French travelogue published in London in 1703. The two names, Sakia and Okima, come from an Algonquin dictionary, which Louis Armand Baron de Lahontan appended to the first volume of New Voyages to North America.2 Sakia, according to Lahontan, means ‘Love’, and Okima means ‘leader or captain’ in Algonquin (New Voyages, 274). While Dennis does not appear to have disclosed this name information, he provides a hint. He introduces his preface with the point, ‘I thought fit to premise for the sake of those who have never read either Hennepin or Lahontan’ (Select Writings, II, 94). Dennis also records his change of Agnie, a French word for Mohawk (according to Lahontan), to Angie, ‘for the sake of better sound’. His prefatory comments do not identify the playwright’s source for his character names nor do they explain his decision to use these words for those names. They do, however, indicate a reason for Dennis’s decision: he sought to create accuracy but not at the expense of fostering English civic investment.

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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 score0.940
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.179 · 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