Adapting a text and ideology: the influence of Locke’s <i>Two Treatises</i> on Southerne’s <i>Oroonoko</i>
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Abstract
The play Oroonoko (1695) by Thomas Southerne adapted the novel of the same name by Aphra Behn (1688). Between the publication of Behn’s novel and the first performance of Southerne’s play, England experienced profound political change. In adapting Behn’s novel for the stage, Southerne altered the story to reflect the political ideology of the Whigs, who dominated English politics in the 1690s. Each version of Oroonoko relates to the writings of two rivals in seventeenth-century political thought: Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke. Southerne, when he adapted Behn’s novel, replaced the ideas of Filmer with those of Locke, especially in regard to the state of nature and the right to rebel against a tyrant. Southerne’s embrace of Locke’s philosophy also aligned him with his prospective patron, the prominent Whig, William Cavendish, the 1st Duke of Devonshire.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".