Liberty on the Waterfront

British Pirates in Print and Performance

“…Piracy meant to forsake "fundamental social rules, escape conventional authority, manufacture their own power," and accumulate considerable wealth in the process. 55 Adding to the attraction, as some plays suggested, was the possibility that the pirate might ultimately be rewarded as a hero and a patriot.…”

“…Avery, 28 Somerset,Charles,55 The 21,22 Surrey,3,4,34,44,50,51,53,56,57,73,74,75,80,83,84,93,94,95 swashbuckling melodrama,39,45 Swift,Jonathan Gulliver's Travels,20,76 Tasso,Torquato,75 tattoos,143,144 Taylor, Miss Donna Clara, Governor's Daughter in Lolonois, 50 Teach, Edward known as Blackbeard, 10,12,15,21,22,26,39,121,139,145,153 Teatro Grande,Trieste,13,62 …”

“…Cobham, Thomas,44 as Arden in Abbey Lands, 35 as Miles Colvine in The Ocean Fiend, 35 title-role in Pocock's Rob Roy, 35 Coburg,3,4,34,35,36,38,42,45,48,53,56,80,84,88,89,90,94,95,96,114 Cockpit Theatre,43 Code of pirates,49,140,141 Byron's The Corsair,11,13,16,26,31,[60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]70,94,96,101,[114][115][116][117][118]139 13,55,57,66,...…”

“…Notes Introduction Index abduction drama, 1,12,31,34,35,37,39,52 The Abergavenny; or, The Child of the Wreck, [8][9]13,36,44,51,52,55,57,64,66,69,70,80,82,88,89,90,91,93,94,95,96,116 The African;or,Slave Trade Cruelty,48 Alfieri,Vittorio Mirra,68 Algerine corsairs,57,60,108 Algiers,1,103,111 bombarded ( 8,102,114,129,140,141,142,148,149,151,156; see: Code Ashton-under Lyne, 42 Assassins's Creed …”

Recent Currents in the Nineteenth‐Century American Maritime History

“…41 Just as Philbrick does for the iconic literary role of the seafarer, Gilje and Myra C. Glenn both explore the role of Jack Tar as a figure in need of reform and protection, both from the temptations of vice and the excesses of brutal officers. 42 Perhaps the most rancorous divide in the literature stems from attempts to plumb the political character and national identity of seafarers. Throughout his career, Jesse Lemisch has studied Jack Tar as a political being.…”