British Pirates in Print and Performance [electronic resource] /
Powell, M.author.
Powell, Manushag N.,author.
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Striding the Deck, Strutting the Stage; 1 A Nation of Pirates; 1. A Pirate by Any Other Name; 2. English Pirates in English Literature and the General History; 3. Whose Nation of Pirates? Madagascar and Bold Captain Avery; 2 Pirates on Stage; 1. Pirates and Smugglers; 2. Blackbeard: The Musical; 3. Privateers: Sir Francis Drake; 4. Pirate Traffic and Trade; 5. Slave Trade and the Stage; 6. Captain Kidd and François "Lolonois"; 7. Nautical Gothic Melodrama; 3 Byron's The Corsair; 4 Scott's The Pirate
5 Cooper's The Pilot and The Red Rover6 Pirate Sex; 1. Marriage and Polygamy and Pirates; 2. Pirate Sex on Land and at Sea; 3. Ruined by Women; 4. The Heroine's Adventures: Pirates as Plot Elements; 5. The End of Pirate Romance: Marriage; 7 She-Pirates; 1. The Glory of the Pre-Golden Age She-Pirate; 2. Polly and the Once and Future Mary Reads; 3. The Altered Afterlife of Anne Bonny; 8 Pirate Clichés; 1. The Pirate Code, or the "Jamaican Discipline"; 2. Pirate Fashion: Peg Legs, Parrots, Pretty Red Coats; 3. The Jolly Roger; 4. Jolly Songs beneath the Black Flag; 5. Walking the Plank
6. The Gentleman Pirate7. The Reluctant Pirate; 8. Pirate Dynasties; Appendix: Chronology of Pirate Plays in Britain; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.
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