Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics

Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love’s Martyr'

Don Rodrigues (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2022
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-17882-3 (ISBN)

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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 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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Professor Jonathan Hope, Lynne Magnusson, Michael Witmore
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-17882-9 / 1350178829
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17882-3 / 9781350178823
Zustand	Neuware