With 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.From the time of the
attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada of the 1580s, through the
rise of anti-Spanish rhetoric of the 1620s, "The Poetics of Piracy"
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 "Don Quixote" in Beaumont's "The Knight of the Burning
Pestle" and Shakespeare's late, lost play "Cardenio." English
literature was deeply transnational, even in the period most
closely associated with the birth of a national
literature.Recovering the profound influence of Spain on
Renaissance English letters, "The Poetics of Piracy" paints a
sophisticated picture of how nations can serve, at once, as rivals
and resources.
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