Not Just Sir Oliver Owlet: From Patrons to ‘Patronage’ of Early Modern Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using evidence largely drawn from the Records of Early English Drama (REED) Patrons and Performances website, this article presents an account of the lives and activities of particular patrons of early modern theatre and the effects of the patronage system upon the quotidian lives of professional actors under patronage in England. Many prominent patrons (all men, except for a few queens and princesses) were involved in important playing companies and London playhouses which have been, for many years, considered to be the pinnacles of early modern theatre. One such patron was Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales (1538–1601), who had a company of players that entered what E. K. Chambers has termed the ‘charmed London circle’ because of two court performances, on December 26, 1592 and July 6, 1593. Other patrons during the period include Henry Fortescue, Katherine Willoughby, James Fitzjames, Thomas Howard, Henry Compton, Edmund Sheffield, and James Stanley.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".