The culture of piracy, 1580-1630 : English literature and seaborne crime /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jowitt, Claire
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Series:	Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Crime in literature. Pirates in literature. Politics and literature > England > History > 16th century. Politics and literature > England > History > 17th century. Privateering > History > 16th century. Privateering > History > 17th century. Commerce in literature.

Table of Contents:

Subversive pirates representations of Purser and Clinton, 1583-1639
Uses and abuses of piracy: discourses of mercantilism and empire in accounts of Drake's famous voyage, 1580-1630
Et in Arcadia ego : piracy and politics in prose romance, 1580-1603
Pirates and politics: drama of the long, 1590s
Jacobean connections: piracy and politics in seventeenth-century drama and romance
Politics and pirate typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's late Jacobean pirate drama.