“I believe my play is really ‘going through’”: Edith Wharton’s <i>The Shadow of a Doubt</i> : A Play in Three Acts in Performance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Edith Wharton’s The Shadow of a Doubt, a play in three acts, has generated extensive publicity as well as interest in staged readings. Now, The Shadow of a Doubt has been completely professionally staged for the first time at the 2023 Shaw Festival’s Royal George Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Director Peter Hinton-Davis sought to preserve Wharton’s original intentions as well as offer a new interpretation of this now modern classic. In early 1901, the play was already in rehearsal for a matinee with the Empire Theatre Acting Company, directed by Charles Frohman and starring Elsie De Wolfe. In his letters, Walter Berry asks how the rehearsals are going and gossips about De Wolfe. In addition, an actual promptbook from this 1901 production of The Shadow of a Doubt was located at the New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division. This archival treasure shows the revisions to the play as it was in rehearsals and includes blocking and stage directions. This history suggests Wharton was an engaged playwright, attending rehearsals and participating in all aspects of the dramatic artistic experience.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".