Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In this chapter the author reviews in brief the history of realist representation in the theater, the criteria for which emerged in classical Greece, in particular in the fragmentary text that is the Poetics, by philosopher Aristotle. Realism is a relatively recent arrival on the scene of theatrical practice and remains only one style among many when considered globally. Despite vigorous and successful explorations in various expressive directions, it remains the dominant form of theatrical expression in North America, often following the procedures employed in film and television. Focusing on dramatic writing by gay playwrights in Canada, the writer observes that even members of a marginalized group, gay men, have tended to situate their work in the dramatic style of the dominant culture, despite their nondominant status. Explicitly gay plays emerged in tandem with the onset of the AIDS epidemic, which arrived first in the United States and then spread to Canada; much of the dramatic writing of the latter decades of the twentieth century was profoundly marked by this crisis. The writer speculates that the devastations wrought by AIDS prompted artists who might otherwise have embraced more adventurous forms of dramaturgy to situate their work on the ground of realism, given its capacity to establish potent identification on the part of the spectator with the plight of dramatic characters.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 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".