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Record W2043008529 · doi:10.3138/md.43.2.147

The Question of Liz: Staging the Prisoner in <i>Our Country's Good</i>

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Stephen Weeks

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubversionPower (physics)SubjectivityThatcherismContext (archaeology)SubsidyAgency (philosophy)Principal (computer security)SociologyAestheticsLawHistoryPolitical scienceArtSocial sciencePoliticsEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good is usually said to offer a strong defense of theatre — indeed, a celebration of its power — and, within the historical context of its premiere, to suggest the short-sightedness and social costs of Thatcherite cutbacks in arts subsidies. Yet this defense is more nuanced than is generally recognized, and the play's celebratory energies are everywhere qualified, revised, and deepened in ways I wish to address. To do so, I will weave together an account of Wertenbaker's treatment of subjectivity and agency in one of her principal female characters, the prisoner Liz Morden, with a complementary discussion of Stephen Greenblatt's theory of "subversion and containment" as a mode of power.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score0.318

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)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.223 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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