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A 'great anti-war play' : Bury the Dead on the world stage

2018· article· en· W2883505630 on OpenAlex
Lisa Milner

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University) · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMilitary History and Strategy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStage (stratigraphy)Project commissioningHistoryPublishingPolitical scienceLawBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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With its compelling story of dead soldiers refusing to be buried as a protest against war, Irwin Shaw's 1936 experimental play Bury the Dead met with instant success on the New York stage. While it was eagerly taken up by mainstream and little theatres in the USA, it has most often been staged by radical and left-wing theatres throughout the world, including in Australia, Great Britain, India, South Africa and Canada. It resonated with audiences, and it also made waves: at an early British performance, members of the audience had to be treated for shock. Shaw drew his inspiration from the horrors of World War I and the Spanish Civil War, and the play's anti-war message and experimental style proved to be popular with Depression-era audiences fearing another world war. Its relevance has not diminished since that era, its success as a tool for moral protest and social commentary continuing to the present day, in many translations and nations. Its production, too, has been in varying forms. This article investigates the continuing attractiveness of Bury the Dead as an anti-war drama across a variety of historical, cultural, political and production contexts from 1936 to 2018, and interrogates the play's relevance for theatres in disparate times and places. In focusing on the play's Australian productions, it also provides a comprehensive production history of the work in this country.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.961
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.243 · 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