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Record W4236291989 · doi:10.1007/978-1-349-60041-0_21

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2010· book-chapter· en· W4236291989 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Katharine Goodland, John O’Connor

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFolklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDreamArtArt historyPerformance artLiteraturePsychology

Abstract

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[This is] an earthy, uninhibited, rollicking production… Neptune's "Dream" is rooted in reality… In fact, the fairies shook me a little… the combined effects of black-light on fluorescent face-paint, luminous costumes fashioned out of leaves and vines and strange guttural sounds made me think of Zulus rather than delicate fairy figures flitting through the forest. Robust is the word that comes to mind, and a robust and very Canadian Puck played in a rather captain-of the-Lacrosse-team way by Margo Sweeny. Neptune's fairyland seems composed of black velvet and bright artificial flowers that all look like man-eating plants. Rather like a trip on LSD. But creating a strange and otherworldly atmosphere. Kenneth Pogue … comes on strong in both parts [Theseus and Oberon]—lots of authority and stage presence—but not enough contrast in the two roles. To me, none of the fairy kingdom were devilish enough—they were after all, a pretty mean bunch, playing cruel psychological tricks on each other and on the mortals who strayed into their fairyland. Diana Barrington plays the other dual role—Hippolyta… and Titania. The Amazon overshadowed the fairy—but in a regal and charming manner. These two gave us a royal couple, a strong pivot for the play to revolve around. Now we come to the scene-stealers… Denise Fergusson, as Helena. She's a delightful comedienne—the sad/funny clown—woebegone when Demetrius spurns her—incredulous when he becomes besotted with her… This girl achieves great rapport with her audience… and her timing is near perfect. Then Kenneth Wickes and Doug Chamberlain as Francis Flute and the brash Nick Bottom.KeywordsSenior ActorCoarse HumorWild ThymeBlack VelvetShakespeare PlayThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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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), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.640
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.202 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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