Women Playing Women in Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations
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Abstract
A quarter of a century is -in my view -ample time for Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations to have become an uncontested part of the drama canon in Canadian literature.Her peers rightly rewarded its merits when the very first Governor General's Award for drama was given to this play in 1981.It has been performed not only across Canada but in the U.S. and Europe as well.The published play, as well as its stagings, have received wideranging critical attention representing a great variety of approaches.On this occasion I would like to dwell on the metadramatic aspect of the play with a stress on the context of European drama.I do not wish to downplay Pollock's own remarks about classical and more modem theatre -"Shake speare's totally irrelevant to me.I don't care if I see another Ibsen before I die.I'm simply not interested in what I refer to as 'museum' theatre" (Pol lock 1982, 116) -still, if we take a closer look at Blood Relations, there are motifs that remind us of earlier masterpieces of European drama.Susan Stratton rightly points out that Mr. Borden's destruction of Lizzie's birds recalls Jean' s destruction of Julie's bird in Miss Julie.Pollock keeps the outcome of Strindberg's play before us, as Lizzie considers tire possibility of taking her own life.(Stratton 2000, 69-70)
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".