
Shakespeare's Queer Analytics
Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr'
Don Rodrigues(Author)
The Arden Shakespeare (Publisher)
Published on 24. February 2022
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-350-17882-3 (ISBN)
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Description
What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, 'The Phoenix and Turtle'? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as Shakespeare wrote? Is the Earl of Essex, recently executed for treason, the Turtledove lover of the Phoenix? Questions such as these dominate scholarship of both Shakespeare's poem and the book in which it first appeared: Robert Chester's enigmatic collection of verse, Love's Martyr (1601), where Shakespeare's allegory sits next to erotic love lyrics by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston, as well as work by the much lesser-known Chester.
Don Rodrigues critiques and revises traditional computational attribution studies by integrating the insights of queer theory to a study of Love's Martyr. A book deeply engaged in current debates in computational literary studies, it is particularly attuned to questions of non-normativity, deviation and departures from style when assessing stylistic patterns. Gathering insights from decades of computational and traditional analyses, it presents, most radically, data that supports the once-outlandish theory that Shakespeare may have had a significant hand in editing works signed by Chester. At the same time, this book insists on the fundamentally collaborative nature of production in Love's Martyr.
Developing a compelling account of how collaborative textual production could work among early modern writers, Shakespeare's Queer Analytics is a much-needed methodological intervention in computational attribution studies. It articulates what Rodrigues describes as 'queer analytics': an approach to literary analysis that joins the non-normative close reading of queer theory to the distant attention of computational literary studies - highlighting patterns that traditional readings often overlook or ignore.
Don Rodrigues critiques and revises traditional computational attribution studies by integrating the insights of queer theory to a study of Love's Martyr. A book deeply engaged in current debates in computational literary studies, it is particularly attuned to questions of non-normativity, deviation and departures from style when assessing stylistic patterns. Gathering insights from decades of computational and traditional analyses, it presents, most radically, data that supports the once-outlandish theory that Shakespeare may have had a significant hand in editing works signed by Chester. At the same time, this book insists on the fundamentally collaborative nature of production in Love's Martyr.
Developing a compelling account of how collaborative textual production could work among early modern writers, Shakespeare's Queer Analytics is a much-needed methodological intervention in computational attribution studies. It articulates what Rodrigues describes as 'queer analytics': an approach to literary analysis that joins the non-normative close reading of queer theory to the distant attention of computational literary studies - highlighting patterns that traditional readings often overlook or ignore.
Reviews / Votes
A daring synthesis of queer theory, quantitative digital analysis and book history, this study showed me how little I knew about Shakespeare's most enigmatic poem and its contexts. Genuinely original and potentially revolutionary. -- Jonathan Hope, Arizona State University, USA Shakespeare's Queer Analytics is an illuminating look at the perennially puzzling Love's Martyr. Rodrigues skilfully brings computation, attribution studies, and queer theory together and makes important contributions to each of these fields. * Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
8 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-17882-3 (9781350178823)
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Shakespeare's Queer Analytics
Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr'
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Persons
Don Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor of English at Old Dominion University, USA. He specializes in early modern literature and culture, queer theory, and computational approaches to early modern literature. He has published on Shakespearean authorship and presented widely on computational stylistics, early modern literature and culture, and gender and sexuality. Rodrigues has held fellowships with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Vanderbilt University's Center for Digital Humanities, and Harvard University's metaLAB.
Author
Old Dominion University, USA
Series Editor
Content
List of Plates, Figures, and Tables
Series Editors' Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Introduction: Love's Martyr and the Case for Queer Analytics
Queering Computation
1. Queerness at Scale: The Radical Singularities of Love's Martyr
2. Competitive Intimacies in the Poetical Essays
Computing Queerness
3. "Neither two nor one were called": Queer Logic and "The Phoenix and Turtle"
Appendixes
with Jonathan Hicks
1. Technical Appendix
2. Love's Martyr's Poetical Essays
3. Love's Martyr's Dialogues and Cantos
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Series Editors' Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Introduction: Love's Martyr and the Case for Queer Analytics
Queering Computation
1. Queerness at Scale: The Radical Singularities of Love's Martyr
2. Competitive Intimacies in the Poetical Essays
Computing Queerness
3. "Neither two nor one were called": Queer Logic and "The Phoenix and Turtle"
Appendixes
with Jonathan Hicks
1. Technical Appendix
2. Love's Martyr's Poetical Essays
3. Love's Martyr's Dialogues and Cantos
Bibliography
Notes
Index