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Shakespeare's Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr'

Hardback

Main Details

Title Shakespeare's Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr'
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don Rodrigues
Series edited by Professor Jonathan Hope
Series edited by Lynne Magnusson
Series edited by Michael Witmore
SeriesArden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9781350178823
ClassificationsDewey:822.33
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 8 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publication Date 24 February 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

Don Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis, 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.

Reviews

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 *