Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.003 |
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".