Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sharon Pollock’s 1980 play Blood Relations tells a fictionalized story of the real-life Lizzie Borden murders. While the work is an example of feminist theatrical literature that features commentary on gendered oppression, the lesser-prevalent but more scathing commentary is found in Pollock’s metatheatrical identification of the audience. As court members speak to the audience and actresses gesture to the real cultural history of the murders, Pollock implicitly asks her viewers to consider not only the guilt of the characters in the murders, but also the patriarchal associations that caused Lizzie’s supposed acts in the 1890s and continue into modern Canadian society. At the emotional height of the play, the lights go out as the image of an axe is about to descend on its victim, and as the lights come back on, the audience is forever transformed into not only jury members in Lizzie’s murder trial but also potential guilty criminals in the outcome of the events. The blood is not only on Lizzie’s hands, but also on every hand in the theatre.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.133 | 0.027 |
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".