Shakespeare Is Strange: Queer/Adaptation, The Tempest, and Life Is Strange: Before the Storm
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Appropriations of Shakespeare in videogames have been discussed for over a decade now, but their unique potential to enlist players as creators has not been fully explored. This article focuses on Life Is Strange: Before the Storm's appropriations of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a queer/adaptation that encourages users to remake Shakespeare and his texts anew through gameplay. Drawing upon Fazel and Geddes's concept of the Shakespeare user, the article examines the resistant qualities of Before the Storm's narrative. Although the game may seem limited in its design and therefore not allow for the queer joy Bo Ruberg locates in videogames' liberating and multiple forms of play, I argue that the game is by design queer in its resistance to Shakespeare's authority and its queer rewriting of his stories. Before the Storm thus highlights the resistant practice of queer play that fashions users into gamewrights.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 it