Early modern English anxieties: English-Ottoman encounters in The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, and The Renegado
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Abstract
The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries marked a period during which \nEngland increased its participation in overseas exploration, trade, and colonization, and \nwas embroiled at home in religious discord and the transference of the English crown \nfrom Queen Elizabeth I to King James I and then to King Charles I. Playwrights \nresponded to the sense of uncertainty that emerged from such social and political \ninstability through fictionalized depictions of English-Ottoman encounters in the \nMediterranean that involved romance, violence, and religious conversion. This project \ncontains analyses of three such plays: Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West \nPart I (c. 1600) and Part II (c. 1630), and Philip Massinger’s The Renegado (c. 1624), \nand interrogates the dramatists’ portrayals of conflicts between Ottomans and Europeans \nin the Mediterranean. This thesis considers how such portrayals signify the anxieties of \nthe early modern English through themes of race, sexuality, gender, class, nation, and \nreligion, and how these intersecting factors contributed to on-stage representations of \nnascent English identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".