The culture of piracy, 1580-1630
Subtitle: English literature and seaborne crime
By: Claire Jowitt
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700; Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781409400448; 9780754699125
Subjects: Pirates in literature; English literature; Politics and literature; History and criticism; Crime in literature; Commerce in literature; Privateering; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Subversive pirates representations of Purser and Clinton, 1583-1639; title: Uses and abuses of piracy: discourses of mercantilism and empire in accounts of Drake's famous voyage, 1580-1630; title: Et in Arcadia ego : piracy and politics in prose romance, 1580-1603; title: Pirates and politics: drama of the long, 1590s; title: Jacobean connections: piracy and politics in seventeenth-century drama and romance; title: Politics and pirate typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's late Jacobean pirate drama.