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Record W2511035805 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511483660.008

<i>King Lear:</i> We have no such daughter

2005· book-chapter· en· W2511035805 on OpenAlexaff
Alexander Leggatt

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2005
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNothingIdentity (music)ArtPhilosophyDaughterArt historyLiteratureLawAesthetics

Abstract

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When Chiron and Demetrius rape and mutilate Lavinia, they try to destroy her as a human being, leaving her with a life that is no life at all. It is her father who takes the lead in trying to restore whatever life she can have, trying to bring her back into the relationship. In the first scene of King Lear, Cordelia endures a cruel twist on Lavinia's fate: it is her father who tries to annihilate her. He does this most obviously in the curse he utters when he banishes her, an attack that leaves no mark on her body but aims at destroying her humanity, her relationships and her identity, even more completely than Chiron and Demetrius destroy Lavinia's. Lear has defined Cordelia as his daughter, and if she is not his daughter she is nothing. The long ordeals of Lavinia, Cressida and Desdemona take up much of their respective plays. Cordelia's is compressed into the first scene, after which she disappears for a long time as though Lear has truly annihilated her. But as Othello in trying to destroy Desdemona's identity actually destroys his own, so Lear's attack on Cordelia means that he is the one who breaks apart. From the self-violation of Lear's identity, chaos spreads through his family and his kingdom, as identities and the structures of relationship that depend on them break down.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.880
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.156 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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