‘Do not mistrust my age or power’: Daughterly Agency in Three Elizabethan Family Drama Plays
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Three romantic comedy plays set in rural English towns, Henry Porter's The Two Angry Women of Abingdon, William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the apocryphal The Merry Devil of Edmonton, were written and performed during the late Elizabethan era. These three plays are considered to be a part of the lesser-known genre of "family drama," and emerged within roughly five years of each other during a tug-of-war period when London's two dominant play companies, the Admiral's Men and the Lord Chamberlain's Men, deliberately imitated their counterpart's repertoire in an attempt to fight for audienceship. The plots of the family drama plays revolve around a marriageable daughter figure that is either propelled to marry or prevented from marrying her desired mate. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the daughter in the family drama in order to evaluate the level of agency she possesses within the male-dominated controlled system of marriage exchange. By scrutinizing her character, speech, actions, and reactions, as well as how she is treated and regarded by her parents, suitors, and members of her community, we are able to discern whether or not her marriage in the culminating communal reconciliation in the final act stems from true love or societal compulsion.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".