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Article Evaluation: Katherine Philips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Philips

The Lead Section
The lead section supposed to give a concise overview of the subject is a bit too short and doesn't give a whole lot of information. It still needs some work and would benefit from more information being added to it. In addition to that, it could also be relevant to rewrite it to be more fluid. It needs to be more informative and a bit longer than two lines.

The Early years
This section is also problematic. In short, it's too short and much like the lead section, it's not nearly as informative as it should be. It's also unclear how long her ‘’early years’’ are because there are no dates to define the start and end of that period of her life. The information is very broad and could use a lot more reference work and citations because this section has none. It also has an information corroborated only by an unnamed source, specifically in the passage that reads: '' Philips is said to have read the Bible through before she was five years old. '' That section could be scrapped entirely and replaced by a more precise section based on citations and references presented chronologically with dates and a lot more information about her life and upbringings.

Career
This section is better than the other ones. As the more important part of the article, it's also the lengthiest and the one with the most citations. It is however far from perfect and on par with the quality of the rest of the article. The career section, like all the other ones, needs more citations and references. It only has three citation marks while it should have many more throughout its length. In addition, while the text is much richer in information that the other sections, it feels a bit disjointed and, much like the lead section, could be rewritten in a more fluid manner. Some parts of this sections could've warranted their own headings because they're not explicitly about Philips' career. The authors also make a few comments about the quality of her work and some of its characteristics while it should stay more neutral. The comments are somewhat subtle and positive, but they have no place in any quality article.

Influences
This is the last section of the article and the shortest. It is only one uncited sentence. This section is either unnecessaryor extremely underdeveloped though it does a good job at linking to otherarticles; However, it doesn’t even mention the fact that she was influential inthe romantic movement.

Not Enough Content
The content of this article seems a bit light compared to what's available. It feels like there was a lot more information in a short lesson about her than in this article so there should be much more to it. This article is written in a very broad manner and mentions the big events and works in the life of Katherine Philips but doesn't go much further into them. There is a lot that could be added by doing that, thus adding more sections, more information, more citations and improving the article overall. A section specifically about her works could be added to this article and it would make it better. It needs to be written as a whole, not just in sections, considering the place of every piece of information that a deep and thorough research brought to the table in order not to miss anything important or talk about it too much to keep a good balance. This article feels like it wasn't written like that. What it needs is to be rewritten to include more information and more specifics in a longer a fluid text.

Not Enough Citations and sources
One of the biggest most notable shortcomings of this article is its terrible citations. Its sources are neutral and written by third party institutions and authors but there are not enough of them for an article of that size. It's also quite surprising that there is so little citing for an article like that. There is but five citations throughout the entire article while there should be a lot more. The article isn't long but there is enough information in it to warrant a lot more sources and citations from reliable sources to make it richer a more reliable. Citing should occur whenever new information is added and this article, as stated many times before, does not do a good job at it. The reference section is underdeveloped, one of the link doesn't lead to anything, there are too few citations and there are massive gaps in sourcing.

Good Things
There isn't a whole lot of good things about this article, but it does make a fairly good job at staying neutral, aside from a few slipups. It doesn't lean one way more than another and doesn't try to make a point or promote anything though it does comment on her work at certain points. It is to the point and informative in this sense. It also makes a fairly good job with linking to other articles related to certain terms that a reader might want to get some precisions about. The last good thing about the Katherine Philips article is that its sources are neutral and reliable. There is only a few of them but the ones that are there are good enough to be cited on Wikipedia. They are unbiased, some of them are peer reviewed and others come from known institutions. Anyone who wants a brief overview of Matchless Orinda for a high school project will be sufficiently pleased with this article. Unfortunately, there isn’t many other good things about this article. It is quite frankly lacking in most if not all aspect.

= Abbey Theater contributions draft =

Lady Gregoy
The recent wave of cultural energy of the time helped her create the Irish Literary Theatre, which would later become the INTS, with the the help of W.B Yeats and Synge. She aimed to take Irish theater higher in the artistic world as she saw it as 'High Art' and 'Academic theater' and wanted artistic and academic institutions to see it as such. She was the first to meet Yeats, in 1898, who admitted to her that it was a dream of his to create a theatre in which new ambitious Irish plays could be performed in. The idea seemed more and more possible to achieve as they kept talking and by the end of their first meeting, they had a plan on how to make this National theatre a reality. In the first year of the theatre, Lady Gregory was mostly in charge of finding money and support from patrons, and she even donated some of her own money. She's the woman responsible for making the ILT and the INTS financially work before Horniman's offer to give them a theatre.

In 1903, when Annie Horniman offers the INTS a theater for them to perofrm in, Lady Gregory is one of the members who schemed a way to bypass the terms of the deal. She didn't like Horniman and was happy when she left, saying she was  free from her and from further foreign invasion . She wrote a few plays for the theatre, often with themes she could relate to, and would become a famous playwright due to the works she wrote for the theatre. At the Abbey Theatre, she was in charge of the day-to-day operations and she was the one to keep things fresh in the theatre. After her death, the Theater started to loose it's momentum and slowly began to be taken over by Ernest Blythes, who would turn it into a mouthpiece for the government or Ireland.

William Butler Yeats
The Abbey Theatre is sometimes called Yeats' theatre or a manifestation of his own artistic ambitions and ideals. He wanted a theater in which the playwright's words was the most important thing, prevaling over the text, the actor and the audience. It was very important to him that the authors had control. It was because of him and his efforts that Lady Gregory, Synge and himself became the Board of Directors of the INTS. It was only after meeting Lady Gregory that Yeats thought the creation of such a theatre possible. He worked closely with her for almost a year before the first production of the ILT, during which his play Cathleen Ni Hoolihan and Edward Martyn's Heather Field were performed to great success, some even calling it  the cultural event of the decade , though some accused him of being too political or even of writing a heretic play.

He then adopted a new, more inclusive politic, which helped him and Lady Gregory recruit many new patrons, most of them Protestant or Unionists. As early as 1900, Yeats sent a letter to Lady Gregory that implied that he was confident about finding a reliable patron who, had the time, remained anonymous. The patron he was talking about was Annie Horniman, who had anonymously financed Yeats' first play in 1884. But by that point, he was starting to want his theatre to be seen as nationalist. However, by October 1901, he had lost interest in the ILT as a mean to express his artistic vision, as he was forced to make sacrifices to acommodate coworkers. He chose to stay because of his relationship with Horniman, who he saw as a mean to secure his ambitions and the Fay Brothers' troup of Irish actors.

His relationship with Horniman was essential to his projects, so much so that he declared in front an audience that he would not accept money from Nationalists and Unionist, which forced him to change the entire politics of the INTS. He gave this speech in 1903 and by 1904, he was the president of the Abbey Theatre. When Horniman left, he wanted to bring back the nationalst aspect the theatre once had but was stopped by a threath from Horniman to close it down. Panicked over many months, he finally had the the last word with the help of Bernard Shaw and Lady Gregory. During the summer of 1909, Shaw offered his play Blanco Posnet to the Abbey, a play previously censored that allowed him to challenge British authority and to come back to the good graces of Nationalists, thus giving him a new reputation and making the INTS closer to becoming a representative Irish Institution. Following Horniman' s offer to sell him back the theatre, he then tried to play her so that she would pay more and him less. Yeats, with the help of Lady Gregoy, bought the Abbey back and sued Horniman for the subsidy she owed but won  only in principle  and did not recieve the money.

Miss Annie Horniman
Annie Horniman, a british theater enthusiast and manager, was essential in the creation of the Abbey Theater as she was its first signinficant patron and the woman who offered the edifice in which it would later be. She was first brought on by Yeats as a costume designer for his play The King's Threshold, as she greatly loved his art and it was also a way for him to get closer to her. Yeats's long relationship with her and her love for theatre made her more likely to accept to become a permanent patron and, by 1901, her money was secured. Her support was so important that he already had a role for her in the Abbey Theatre before it was even created. However, by the time the ITL became the INTS, Yeats had to assure her that her money would not be used to fund a Nationalist rebellion.

She supported him as well as the INTS with financial support as she came from a rich family and, in 1903, after Yeats eloquently declared his apolitical theatrical ideals, she offered to give him a theatre in Dublin worth thirteen thousand pounds, but for the deal to work, she had strict conditions. Firstly, she requested that his speech, essays on the Irish National Theatre, and her offer be made public. Secondly, the point she stressed the most, no politics at all. She finally gave him the building for the Abbey Theatre in 1904, but remained the owner. Yeats accepted her terms but Gregory and Synge worked on finding ways to finesse their way around them before officialy accepting. She didn't want to have anything to do with Irish politics, especially not nationalism because she hated it, and was very reactive to anything she saw as political, which caused a great deal of inflamatory feuds with her colleagues. She also did not care for the accessibility of theatre, which was an important issue for the founders, as she created additional rules for ticket pricing, and made the Abbey Theatre one of the most expensive theatres in Dublin. From then, she became the manager of the Abbey Theatre. Over the years, she put many times the theatre's value in money back into it in exchange for input on the plays being staged and respect from the company's directors.

She remained involved for a few strenuous years and left in 1907, angrily realizing she couldn't achieve self-expression at the Abbey, making the board of directors very happy in the process, but stayed financially involved until 1910. From 1907 to 1909, she turned on the INTS, essentially threathening to close if anything she deemed political was performed, even if the intrepretation was up for debate. After the riots following Synge's Playboy of the Western World, she fully expressed her hatred for Irish nationalism and patriotism and threatened the Abbey once again, but when Blanco Posnet was presented and the Nationalists were apeased, she made a deal with Yeats and Lady Gregory to sell them the Theatre. The negociations dragged on and in 1910, when the Abbey stayed open on the day Kind Edward VII died, Horniman had a final dispute in court with Yeats before leaving the Abbey Theatre for good.

Content
After a quick read through, it's easy to see that there could be a lot more. While this article isn't as vacuous as others, there could be more informations added to the text. It's also writen in a way that feels very disjointed, even within sections. It feels like a strange list/ point form text and would benefit from being rewritten. Some parts of the article, like the Origins section, feel like they could have been integrated within the Foundation section. Other sometimes feel superfluous and could be scrapped entirely. It would alse be good for this article to explore the relationships between the founders and possibly to dedicate them a section to present what they each did with this institution but without writing a short biography about them. Most of the History section doesn't really need to be separated in subsections if it's written in a more continuous way and some sort of diagram representing the timeline of important events could be used as support. A section about the cultural and political importance could potentially be a good addition. It would also benefit from giving a bit more context to the foundation. Some dates are also out of order.

Tone
The tone is very much neutral for most of the text but there seems to be undertones of feelings near the end of the text. Some very unnecessary adjectifs are used and push some opinions. The few cases of this should be either erased or rewritten.