Removing the Veils: Censorship, Female Sexuality, and Oscar Wilde's <i>Salome</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In studies of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, it is de rigueur to note that the play was refused a license for production in 1892 because it violated the ban of plays based upon biblical subjects. Continuing this account, we might recall Wilde's empty threat that he would move to France if the play was not licensed and the English press's titillation at the prospect of Wilde being subject to military service as a French citizen. We might also rehearse Wilde's indignant self-defense through aestheticism. Accusing the Examiner of Plays, Edward F.S. Pigott, of "pander[ing] to the vulgarity and hypocrisy of the English people", Wilde righteously smoldered at Pigott's philistinism… Undoubtedly, such observations make interesting footnotes and engaging openings to essays; having participated in this wonted citation of the more piquant moments in the initial censorship of Salome, I would like to consider at length the salacity of Salome herself and the even more scandalous history of the play's censorship from 1892 to 1931.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".