A Dog, A Witch, a Play: <em>The Witch of Edmonton</em>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Witch of Edmonton (1621) is no witch play. Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley base their play on the trial and execution of Elizabeth Sawyer for witchcraft, but the spectacular Tommy the Dog displaces the titular villainess to become the agent of Edmonton's woes. His influence over all of the play's plot lines and his own thrilling, fluid presence confuses the play's genre and unsettles the viewer's sense of right and wrong. Dog's destabilizing potency recalls the improvisational talents of clowning dogs in Tudor interludes and the early comedies in the public theatres, but his theatrical abilities push beyond laughs to unhinge the ethical underpinnings of the society of Edmonton and the justice of the town. The resulting product unmoors audience's expectations about devilry by unleashing the unstoppable Dog to reveal how women like Sawyer and towns like Edmonton are mired and unable to change. Stasis, here the inability to change one's role, becomes the real evil in Edmonton.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it