Shakespeare's Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr' Rodrigues Don
Shakespeare's Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr' Rodrigues Don What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, "The Phoenix and Turtle"? Is the Earl…
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Shakespeare's Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love's Martyr' Rodrigues Don
What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, "The Phoenix and Turtle"? Is the Earl of Essex, recently executed for treason, the Turtledove, lover of the Phoenix? Does the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as Shakespeare wrote?
A book deeply engaged in current debates in computational literary studies, it is particularly attuned to questions of 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.