{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-piracy-9780812244755","title":"The Poetics of Piracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how Spanish material was transmitted into English writing, entangling English literature in questions of national and religious identity, and how piracy came to be a central textual metaphor, with appropriations from Spain triumphantly reimagined as heroic looting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the time of the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada of the 1580s, through the rise of anti-Spanish rhetoric of the 1620s, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e charts this connection through works by Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, and Thomas Middleton. Fuchs examines how their writing, particularly for the stage, recasts a reliance on Spanish material by constructing narratives of militaristic, forcible use. She considers how Jacobean dramatists complicated the texts of their Spanish contemporaries by putting them to anti-Spanish purposes, and she traces the place of Cervantes's \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e in Beaumont's \u003ci\u003eThe Knight of the Burning Pestle\u003c\/i\u003e and Shakespeare's late, lost play \u003ci\u003eCardenio\u003c\/i\u003e. English literature was deeply transnational, even in the period most closely associated with the birth of a national literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovering the profound influence of Spain on Renaissance English letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Piracy\u003c\/i\u003e paints a sophisticated picture of how nations can serve, at once, as rivals and resources.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Fuchs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48186159399163,"sku":"9780812244755","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_61fad5b4-fe5d-48b2-b21d-0599d3b9bb91.jpg?v=1770659536","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-poetics-of-piracy-9780812244755","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}