"This book tracks the interconnections among pirates, pirates in print, and pirates on stage. Performance is the shared strategy for all three. Our chapters examine accounts of piracy in historical records, in adventure stories and romance, and,...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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"This book tracks the interconnections among pirates, pirates in print, and pirates on stage. Performance is the shared strategy for all three. Our chapters examine accounts of piracy in historical records, in adventure stories and romance, and, crucial to the emphasis on performativity, in stage representation. British pirates, in both print and performance, are discussed within a nexus of influence that cares very little for generic distinction beyond the constant of performativity. In fact and in fiction, the role-playing pirate is traced through dozens of stage performances, including the nautical Gothic melodrama, the adaptations of Byron, Scott, and Cooper, and the exploits of lusty she-pirates"--
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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
