Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the last quarter of a century, no textual variant in the works of Shakespeare has captured the attention of his serious readers quite like The Tempest ’s wise / wife crux. During the wedding masque presented by Juno, Ceres, and Isis in Act 4, Ferdinand either praises both Miranda and Prospero’s powerful magic – Let me live here euer, So rare a wondred Father, and a wife Makes this place Paradise. –or he praises exclusively his father-in-law’s magic and ignores altogether his newly betrothed: Let me live here euer, So rare a wondred Father, and a wife Makes this place Paradise. Both textual scholars (bibliographers and textual critics) and literary critics have invested considerable time and energy to debating the issues concerning the variant. In preparation for the Shakespeare Electronic Archive, Peter S. Donaldson gave it a remarkably high profile: ‘In the early stages of planning the digital Folio collection’, he recounts, ‘I used this variant in our first prototype, creating digital images of the line from several of the Folger copies’. Similar status is accorded to the crux by the Arden3 editors, who find in it a fitting conclusion to their introductory discussion of The Tempest . For them, the crux ‘encapsulates several of the play’s major issues: the role of a chaste female (daughter/wife) in Prospero’s generative project; the magician’s wisdom and control of events (or lack thereof); and, most centrally, the question of what it takes to turn a paradise into a “brave new world” in a universe corrupted by greed and egoism’. As the editors suggest, the crux cuts across the lines of inquiry initiated by both textual scholars and literary critics; the Vaughans are, after all, both editing The Tempest and commenting on the implications the crux has for interpretations of the play as a whole.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".