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Record W4413762232 · doi:10.1017/9781108917872.004

Problem Plays, Discussion Plays, and Plays of Ideas

2025· book-chapter· en· W4413762232 on OpenAlexaff
Brad Kent

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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In the nineteenth century, playwrights began to consider speech not only as a prelude to action and conflict but to exploit its potential as a site of action and conflict. The result was the burgeoning of a more discursive and dialectical theatre that directly engaged with social, political, and philosophical debates, leading to the development of such forms as the problem play, the discussion play, and the play of ideas. While these genres have often been considered the conventional types of realist theatre against which other forms of modernism reacted, this chapter argues that they were in fact significant innovations that responded to crises of modernity. In so doing, the chapter traces their circulation as they were adopted and adapted in cultures beyond their origins in Europe.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.046

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.031
Scholarly communication0.0140.012
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.188
Teacher spread0.169 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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