20: French-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille
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Abstract
Institutional Framework THE LATE DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH-CANADIAN THEATER is above all a result of its institutional framework: For a long time, secular drama was decried as amoral and was therefore prohibited. The clergy, in particular, who made a decisive contribution to the history of drama by encouraging the performance of plays in the colleges for the purpose of classical education, rhetorical training, and the moral edification of pupils, rejected the performance of “profane” texts. Beginning with the 1930s, however, the influence of European theater led to a modernization in the repertoire and the performance practice of clerical theater. Many clergymen also composed their own plays, for example, Antonin Lamarche (1899–1967) and his brother Gustave (1895–1987), who achieved great success with Jonathas (1931) and the open-air theater piece La defaite de l'enfer (1938), and who also wrote numerous mystery plays, clerical plays, and dramatic fragments. Emile Legault (1906–1983) — who has since been acknowledged as the founder of modern French-Canadian drama — wrote clerical plays, too, and welcomed avant-gardist tendencies, for instance, in matters of stage decor. He broke away from the limitation to a religious repertoire and performed not only Christian but also secular classical and modern plays, for example, by Moliere, Jean Anouilh, T. S. Eliot, Carlo Goldoni, Luigi Pirandello, and Jean Cocteau, as well as by Jacques Copeau, whose aesthetics had a strong influence on him. In 1937 Legault founded the amateur group Les Compagnons de Saint-Laurent at the College Saint-Laurent in Montreal, which later became a professional institution and produced the theater magazine Les Cahiers des Compagnons .
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.002 |
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".