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Introduction: Striding the Deck, Strutting the Stage,hip ., with the deck actually serving as the stage.’ This physical link between “striding the deck” and “strutting the stage,” a connection we hold at the heart of this book, is further amplified with the contemporary attention to the drama on the exploits of the Royal Navy and British privateers.

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,Pirate Clichés, the gap between what we know about pirates historically and what we like to imagine of them as a matter of aesthetic pleasure is a longstanding and productive phenomenon. There are many such examples besides the woman pirate, and we will close here by weighing some of the other common tropes of pirates on stage and on the page.

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Introduction: Striding the Deck, Strutting the Stage,a great strain on the welfare of the country, Astley announced with national pride that his theater had been built from the timbers of the French warship ., with the deck actually serving as the stage.’ This physical link between “striding the deck” and “strutting the stage,” a connection we hold at

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A Nation of Pirates,llads when active and frightening, and fictionalized or personified on stage when less so. Hence, their romanticized, fictional versions tend to gain strength after a real pirate’s retirement or death.. This may also partly explain why the pirates of the Golden Age (1650–1726) are by far the most po

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,Scott’s ,everal theaters to be the first to offer the unique venture into maritime fiction. The novel was published in Edinburgh on 21 or 22 December and in London on 24 December 1821. A full script was prepared, rehearsed, and performed within two weeks, and two more versions were on the stage by the third

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,Cooper’s , and ,litely phrased it in his preface, “The claims of Sir Walter were a little distrusted, on account of the peculiar and minute information that the romances were then very generally thought to display.” Further, “it was wondered whether a man of Scott’s habits and associations could have become so fami

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Pirate Sex,rwhelming factor in their stories. (Even Cooper’s Pilot, who rejected Scott’s path and chose his version of glory over love, was dashing enough to attract Alice Dunscombe.) Prior to Conrad, pirates could certainly be linked to women: Avery had his invented princess bride; some tales of John Gow port