DOCSLIB.ORG

William Kidd1

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
William Kidd1 PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD1 WALDEN: It was very pleasant, when I staid late in town, to launch PEOPLE OF myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, WALDEN and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was plain sailing. I had many a genial thought by the cabin fire “as I sailed.” I was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I encountered some severe storms. CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD 1. As a euphemism, all pirates were known in New England as “Kidd’s Men.” I have heard a remark, that the most persistent Massachusetts pirate legend had to do with a Palmer and a Warren in the vicinity of Springfield — but as yet I have not been able to turn up any version of such a legend. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1645 Although some stories have William Kidd as being born to the family of a clergyman in this year,2 he was probably born instead in 1654 in or around Dundee, on the east coast of Scotland, because in 1695, when he testified under oath in the case of Jackson and Jacobs v. Noell in the High Court of the Admiralty of England, he would give his age as 41 years and his place of birth as Dundee — this is supported by an entry in the Dundee parish register of baptisms, plus the fact that he would name his black cabin boy “Dundee.” His father is listed in these records as a seaman. The surname “Kidd” occurs frequently in Fife. There is a small sea box inscribed “William Kidd — Leith,” and it is plausible that he would have joined his first ship as a young deck- hand sailing out of Leith, also on the east coast of Scotland. PIRACY 2. There is only one factoid to support the idea that he had been born in the year 1645 — in the written statement of Paul Lorain, the Minister in Attendance at Kidd’s execution in 1701, his age was given at about 56. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN In this year a message was inscribed on an exposed surface at the harbor of the lonely island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic: HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1654 Although some stories have William Kidd as being born to the family of a clergyman in 1645,3 he was probably born at this point in or around Dundee, on the east coast of Scotland, because in 1695, when he testified under oath in the case of Jackson and Jacobs v. Noell in the High Court of the Admiralty of England, he would give his age as 41 years and his place of birth as Dundee — this is supported by an entry in the Dundee parish register of baptisms, plus the fact that he would name his black cabin boy “Dundee.” His father is listed in these records as a seaman. The surname “Kidd” occurs frequently in Fife. There is a small sea box inscribed “William Kidd — Leith,” and it is plausible that he would have joined his first ship as a young deck- hand sailing out of Leith, also on the east coast of Scotland. PIRACY 3. There is only one factoid to support the idea that he had been born in the year 1645 — in the written statement of Paul Lorain, the Minister in Attendance at Kidd’s execution in 1701, his age was given at about 56. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1689 In roughly this time period, a hermit of Braintree, Massachusetts called “Tom Revel” was being rumored to be a regicide, or holy man gone crazy. He lived with a pig, in a habitation that seemed to other residents of the area to resemble a pigsty. Whitney’s HISTORY OF QUINCY offered the tale that, when the man died, the Governor of the Province and other distinguished men came out from Boston and served as his pall-bearers. Several facts point to this being sheer fantasy: we know of no regicide of this name, we know that government officials could not have dared to display such public honor to one of the regicides, and we know that they would have been unwilling to show public honor to a mere hermit. In what would become Windham, New Hampshire a mystery man named John Cates or Kates, who had been around New England at least since 1686, built the initial house. There has been a report that he had come to New England from Virginia, and it was considered possible that he had been the passenger from London who appeared under that name in the manifest of the ship Safety as of 1635. He withdrew from society, living for some time as a hermit in a cave near Windsor. There has been the idle speculation that he was one of the regicides, hiding out, but that seems implausible. The Boston genealogist James Savage has suggested that perhaps John Cates had been merely a “misanthropic humorist, perhaps had been a buccaneer, and thought seclusion his safest course.” We know now that he had not always been an isolate, as it would be discovered upon his death on July 16, 1697 that in his will, filed on May 5, 1696, he mentioned offspring in England. In this will he donated land for a community school, and for the poor of Windham, and money to the church HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN (the popular tale that he what he had donated to the church was a set of silver plate is not accurate). The Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, apparently in debt to some creditors in Paris and unable to continue his fashionable life, had become involved in several buccaneering expeditions which had taken place in the West Indies and the Pacific coast of South America. In this year he published his HISTOIRE DES FILIBUSTIERS DE LA MER DE SUD which would later be translated into English as JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE INTO THE SOUTH SEAS IN 1684 AND THE FOLLOWING YEARS WITH THE FILIBUSTERS. When French privateers threatened Block Island, a Captain Thomas Paine (later to become an associate of Captain William Kidd) sailed from Newport, Rhode Island and succeeded in driving them off. But where was Captain Kidd himself? In this year he was a member of a privateer crew that commandeered a French ship and brought it to the English colony on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. Governor Christopher Codrington renamed this ship Blessed William in honor of King William III and appointed Kidd to be its captain, with a privateer appointment to defend the island against the French and an agreement that to pay for HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN this service he would be entitled to anything he could seize from the French (it would be interpreting this commission very liberally that would get Kidd into beaucoup trouble as a pirate, and lead to his hanging in irons). In Newport, the Quakers agreed that “the Yearly Men and Womens Meeting which useth to be at William Coddinton’s shall be ye first part at ye Meeting House and later part for ye affayers of ye Church to be at Walter Newberry’s.” The meetinghouse referred to would presumably have been the repurposed residence that had been donated by the governor, Friend Nicholas Easton. GREAT MEETINGHOUSE In Rhode Island, Henry Bull was in charge. From this year into 1763, there would be intermittent colonial wars between England and France, a 75-year struggle for empire that would frequently involve this little colony’s men, money, and ships. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF WALDEN: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIDD PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN December: In November 1687 a St. Helena slave, Peter, who had poisoned his master, had been burned alive in the presence of all other slaves, each required to bring some of the kindling. The ceremony had apparently been less that totally effective for at this point it needed to be repeated in regard to a couple of additional slaves, Job and Derrick.4 Captain William Kidd’s Blessed William joined a Royal Navy squadron headed by Captain Thomas Hewetson to attack the French sugar plantation at Mariegalante in the Caribbean. The town was ransacked and Kidd was able to sail away with some £2,000 worth of booty stowed in his privateer vessel’s hold. Hewetson, writing of this in his journal, had it that Kidd “was a mighty man who fought as well as any man I ever saw.” Shortly afterward the Blessed William joined another English squadron, intending to engage French warships at sea. Captain William Kidd’s crew refused, as in such an activity there would not be a whole lot of looting and pillaging, and Kidd went ashore on Nevis. In the middle of the night Robert Culliford led the crew to sail the vessel away, with Kidd’s lion’s share of the booty still in its hold.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Cultural Imaginations of Piracy in Video Games
    FORUM FOR INTER-AMERICAN RESEARCH (FIAR) VOL. 11.2 (SEP. 2018) 30-43 ISSN: 1867-1519 © forum for inter-american research “In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!” Cultural Imaginations of Piracy in Video Games EUGEN PFISTER (HOCHSCHULE DER KÜNSTE BERN) Abstract From its beginning, colonialism had to be legitimized in Western Europe through cultural and political narratives and imagery, for example in early modern travel reports and engravings. Images and tales of the exotic Caribbean, of beautiful but dangerous „natives“, of unbelievable fortunes and adventures inspired numerous generations of young men to leave for the „new worlds“ and those left behind to support the project. An interesting figure in this set of imaginations in North- Western Europe was the “pirate”: poems, plays, novels and illustrations of dashing young rogues, helping their nation to claim their rightful share of the „Seven Seas“ achieved major successes in France, Britain the Netherlands and beyond. These images – regardless of how far they might have been from their historical inspiration – were immensely successful and are still an integral and popular part of our narrative repertoire: from novels to movies to video games. It is important to note that the “story” was – from the 18th century onwards –almost always the same: a young (often aristocratic) man, unfairly convicted for a crime he didn’t commit became an hors-la-loi against his will but still adhered to his own strict code of conduct and honour. By rescuing a city/ colony/princess he redeemed himself and could be reintegrated into society. Here lies the morale of the story: these imaginations functioned also as acts of political communication, teaching “social discipline”.
    [Show full text]
  • Piracy, Illicit Trade, and the Construction of Commercial
    Navigating the Atlantic World: Piracy, Illicit Trade, and the Construction of Commercial Networks, 1650-1791 Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University by Jamie LeAnne Goodall, M.A. Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2016 Dissertation Committee: Margaret Newell, Advisor John Brooke David Staley Copyright by Jamie LeAnne Goodall 2016 Abstract This dissertation seeks to move pirates and their economic relationships from the social and legal margins of the Atlantic world to the center of it and integrate them into the broader history of early modern colonization and commerce. In doing so, I examine piracy and illicit activities such as smuggling and shipwrecking through a new lens. They act as a form of economic engagement that could not only be used by empires and colonies as tools of competitive international trade, but also as activities that served to fuel the developing Caribbean-Atlantic economy, in many ways allowing the plantation economy of several Caribbean-Atlantic islands to flourish. Ultimately, in places like Jamaica and Barbados, the success of the plantation economy would eventually displace the opportunistic market of piracy and related activities. Plantations rarely eradicated these economies of opportunity, though, as these islands still served as important commercial hubs: ports loaded, unloaded, and repaired ships, taverns attracted a variety of visitors, and shipwrecking became a regulated form of employment. In places like Tortuga and the Bahamas where agricultural production was not as successful, illicit activities managed to maintain a foothold much longer.
    [Show full text]
  • Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
    MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES Edited by Joe Karaganis Media Piracy in Emerging Economies can be found online at http://piracy.ssrc.org. © 2011 Social Science Research Council All rights reserved. Published by the Social Science Research Council Printed in the United States of America References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor the Social Science Research Council is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Designed by Rosten Woo Maps by Mark Swindle Cover photo: AFP/Getty Images Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Media Piracy in Emerging Economies ISBN 978-0-98412574-6 1.Information society—Social aspects. 2.Intellectual Property. 3.International business enterprises—Political activity. 4.Blackmarket. I. Social Science Research Council SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES Partnering Organizations The Social Science Research Council New York, NY, USA The Overmundo Institute Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Center for Technology and Society Getulio Vargas Foundation Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sarai The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi, India The Alternative Law Forum Bangalore, India The Association for Progressive Communications Johannesburg, South Africa The Centre for Independent Social Research St.
    [Show full text]
  • Piracy and Religion: Navigating Their Onnecc Tions During the Golden Age Sarah Wampler Oglethorpe University, [email protected]
    Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 2 7-1-2017 Piracy and Religion: Navigating Their onnecC tions during the Golden Age Sarah Wampler Oglethorpe University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ojur Part of the History Commons, International and Area Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Wampler, Sarah (2017) "Piracy and Religion: Navigating Their onneC ctions during the Golden Age," Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ojur/vol7/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wampler: Piracy and Religion Even on the high seas among the most vicious of pirates, religion was present. “Previous to sailing, Capt. Kidd buried his bible on the sea-shore, in Plymouth Sound; its divine precepts being so at variance with his wicked course of life, that he did not choose to keep a book which condemned him in his lawless career,” yet by burying it he was recognizing the significance of the book and the religious connotations it carried.1 Kidd’s actions could be symbolic of leaving God behind in order to move forward free of Christian values, separating himself and his acts of piracy from God. Or he could have been demonstrating that pirates knew that their actions were contradictory to the beliefs of Christianity and by separating himself from his personal bible, he was separating his pirate life from his Christian one.
    [Show full text]
  • Captain William Kidd
    Captain William Kidd Name: William Kidd. Born: Dundee, 1654. Occupation: Sea captain. Defending English and American trade routes First ship: Antigua. He emigrated to New York in the 1680’s. Married: Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, a wealthy widow. On 6 September 1696, Kidd and 150 crew members went to capture a pirate called Robert Culliford in the Indian Ocean. aboard the Adventure Galley. His crew took over his ship on the way. This is called mutiny. Kidd was forced to become a pirate himself. In 1698, Kidd and his crew attacked and took a ship: the cargo was silk, muslin, calico, sugar, opium, iron and salt peter and a worth rumoured to be £70,000 . The Quedah Merchant, renamed the Adventure Prize, was kept by Kidd, as he was forced to abandon and sink his now leaking ship. Being a pirate was now against the law in England and America but Kidd did not know this on his return to America in 1699. He buried the treasure on his way to Boston in Gardiner Island and Block Island. The New England governor, Lord Richard Bellomont, had him arrested on 7 July 1699 in Boston. He was sent to England in February 1700. The trial started on 8 May and was completed the next day – the verdict was that Kidd was guilty of the murder of one of his crew and guilty of multiple acts of piracy. Captain William Kidd was hanged on 23 May 1701. His corpse was left to rot at the Thames River as an example to other would-be pirates.
    [Show full text]
  • The Land of the Golden Trade (West Africa
    Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/landofgoldentradOOIang Dias in the "Roaring Forties" (page 42) ROMANCE OF EMPIRE THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN TRADE [WEST AFRICA] BY JOHN LANG AUTHOR OF ' OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE,' ETC. WITH TWELVE REPRODUCTIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOUR BY A. D. M'CORMICK, R.I. LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK 16 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C., AND EDINBURGH 1910 TO Sir LAUDER BRUNTON, Bart. LL.D., F.R.S., etc. V CONTENTS CHAPTER I In the Beginning CHAPTER II The Carthaginians in West Africa CHAPTER III The Rediscovery of West Africa CHAPTER IV Early English Voyages to Guinea : Lok CHAPTER V Early English Voyages to Guinea : Towrson CHAPTER VI Prisoners of the Portuguese CHAPTER VII Early English Explorers on the Gambia CHAPTER VIII Portuguese and Dutch on the Gold Coast vii THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN TRADE CHAPTER IX PAGE Our Dutch Rivals . .116 CHAPTER X Troubles with the French in West Africa . 140 CHAPTER XI Old Missions . .150 CHAPTER XII The Slave Trade . .169 CHAPTER XIII The Slave Trade—On Shore . .185 CHAPTER XIV The Slave Trade—Middle Passage . .199 CHAPTER XV Pirates of the Guinea Coast: England and Davis . 231 CHAPTER XVI Pirates of the Guinea Coast : Roberts, Massey, and Cocklyn ....... 263 CHAPTER XVII Conclusion ....... 300 INDEX ....... 311 viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Dias in the " Roaring Forties " . Frontispiece The Carthaginians attacking the Gorillas . .16 D'Azambuja receiving the Native Chiefs at Elmina . 36 " We made the upper worke of their shippe flie about their eares " . .66 " " We surrender ! We surrender ! .
    [Show full text]
  • Otfisician Gives
    saas 8 THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D C THURSDAY MARCH 23 1911 Florida provisional department w c PEXSIOX LEGISLATION r Comments Front Comrades on the Dif- ¬ - ferent Bills and Pension Matters Gen ¬ - Nalional President Harris Organizes EourXorps and Appoints erally Thanks Representative Snlloway Officers You have our heartfelt sympathy and Gives way you stood by the otfisiciAN thanks for the old boys in the Sulloway bill We owe - many thanks to Representative Sullo- ¬ Mrs Belle C Harris National Presl- The proceeds of the lecture amounted way and to our friends in the Senate -- M ¬ 1 In framing Womans Relief Corps Is certain- to f tSO and are to be used Bailey and Lodge do not seem to care ly making every effort to live up to the me live pictures preseiucu tu u xj we pass away ¬ 34 by Col whether all within the obligation to work for the best inter- Mitchell Past G A R John next few days or not I lost a good AMERCAN est of the greatest organization of pa ¬ McElroy Wni P Lynch St Cloud -- Captain Co C2d triotic in father who was of I tyfa women the world Her latest Fla splendid III I had a brother who died in the SlcH effort was the oiganization of tO a Department or army but there are yet three of us left Provisional Florida THE FLORIDA EXCAMP3D3XT In the family I served In the 16th 111 This took place at Kissimmee where years 17 days the Department rjneampment Flori-- four three months and of and sometimes I feel that I could han ¬ j aa was held In February The National Tlio 1911 Encampment of Florida Was dle a musket vet to a rood
    [Show full text]
  • The Ballad of Captain Kidd: the Fall of Piracy and Rise of Universal Jurisdiction (1625–1856)
    Chapter 5 The Ballad of Captain Kidd: the Fall of Piracy and Rise of Universal Jurisdiction (1625–1856) My name was William Kidd, God’s laws I did forbid And so wickedly I did, when I sailed. I’d a Bible in my hand By my father’s great command, And sunk it in the sand when I sailed. I’d ninety bars of gold And dollars manifold With riches uncontrolled as I sailed. We taken were at last And into prison cast: Now, sentence being past, we must die. To the Execution Dock While many thousands flock, But I must bear the shock, and must die. Take a warning now by me And shun bad company, Let you come to hell with me, for I must die.1 ∵ The Ballad of Captain Kidd was intended to serve as a poetic warning to any- one seeking to follow in the stead of this rogue privateer and his romanticised outlaw lifestyle. Yet a closer examination of the context surrounding Captain 1 The Ballad of Captain Kidd (selected verses), anon, 1701. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���9 | doi:�0.��63/978900439046�_006 <UN> 114 Chapter 5 Kidd’s arrest (in 1699) and trial (1701) reveals that he was probably innocent of piracy.2 Rather, Kidd was a scapegoat for the English,3 executed to appease their allies and showcase a renewed intolerance of piracy. His death was sym- bolic, then, but nevertheless marked a crucial turning point in terms of policy towards pirates, signalled by communal suppression in a new era of State rela- tions and untempered commerce.4 At last, “[l]egal recognition of pirates as criminals emerged from centuries of intermittent cooperation and conflict”.5 This “age of intolerance” towards piracy was born of necessity.
    [Show full text]
  • The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse 1
    The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse 1 The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Author: Philip Gosse Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #19564] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIRATES' WHO'S WHO *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note. Many of the names in this book (even outside quoted passages) are inconsistently spelt. I have chosen to retain the original spelling treating these as author error rather than typographical carelessness. THE PIRATES' The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse 2 WHO'S WHO Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers BY PHILIP GOSSE ILLUSTRATED BURT FRANKLIN: RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES 119 Essays in History, Economics & Social Science 51 BURT FRANKLIN NEW YORK Published by BURT FRANKLIN 235 East 44th St., New York 10017 Originally Published: 1924 Printed in the U.S.A. Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 68-56594 Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works Series 119 Essays in History, Economics & Social Science
    [Show full text]
  • Flying the Black Flag: a Brief History of Piracy
    Flying the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy Alfred S. Bradford Praeger The Locations and Chronological Periods of the Pirate Bands Described in This Book 1. The Greeks (800–146 bc) 2. The Romans (753 bc to ad 476) 3. The Vikings (ad 793–1066) 4. The Buccaneers (1650–1701) 5. The Barbary Pirates (1320–1785) 6. The Tanka Pirates (1790–1820) 7. America and the Barbary Pirates (1785–1815) FLYING THE BLACK FLAG A Brief History of Piracy Alfred S. Bradford Illustrated by Pamela M. Bradford Contents Preface xi Part I. Greek Piracy 1. Odysseus: Hero and Pirate 3 2. Greeks and Barbarians 12 3. Greek vs. Greek 19 4. Greek vs. Macedonian 25 Part II. The Romans 5. The Romans Take Decisive Action 35 6. The Pirates of Cilicia 38 7. The Scourge of the Mediterranean 43 8. The End of Mediterranean Piracy 49 Part III. The Vikings 9. “From Merciless Invaders ...”57 viii Contents 10. The Rus 65 11. Conversion and Containment 71 Part IV. The Worldwide Struggle against Piracy 12. The Buccaneers 81 13. Tortuga and the Pirate Utopia 90 14. Henry Morgan 97 15. The Raid on Panama 105 16. The Infamous Captain Kidd 111 Part V. The Barbary Pirates 17. Crescent and Cross in the Mediterranean 121 18. War by Other Means 129 Part VI. Pirates of the South China Coast 19. Out of Poverty and Isolation 137 20. The Dragon Lady 144 Part VII. To the Shores of Tripoli 21. New Nation, New Victim 151 22. “Preble and His Boys” 160 23.
    [Show full text]
  • Literature of the Low Countries
    Literature of the Low Countries A Short History of Dutch Literature in the Netherlands and Belgium Reinder P. Meijer bron Reinder P. Meijer, Literature of the Low Countries. A short history of Dutch literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague / Boston 1978 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/meij019lite01_01/colofon.htm © 2006 dbnl / erven Reinder P. Meijer ii For Edith Reinder P. Meijer, Literature of the Low Countries vii Preface In any definition of terms, Dutch literature must be taken to mean all literature written in Dutch, thus excluding literature in Frisian, even though Friesland is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the same way as literature in Welsh would be excluded from a history of English literature. Similarly, literature in Afrikaans (South African Dutch) falls outside the scope of this book, as Afrikaans from the moment of its birth out of seventeenth-century Dutch grew up independently and must be regarded as a language in its own right. Dutch literature, then, is the literature written in Dutch as spoken in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the so-called Flemish part of the Kingdom of Belgium, that is the area north of the linguistic frontier which runs east-west through Belgium passing slightly south of Brussels. For the modern period this definition is clear anough, but for former times it needs some explanation. What do we mean, for example, when we use the term ‘Dutch’ for the medieval period? In the Middle Ages there was no standard Dutch language, and when the term ‘Dutch’ is used in a medieval context it is a kind of collective word indicating a number of different but closely related Frankish dialects.
    [Show full text]
  • The Lost Treasure of Tortuga
    The Lost Treasure Of Tortuga CAlliope Theatre Company Study Guide The Lost Treasure of Tortuga Welcome to The Lost Treasure of Tortuga by Calliope Theatre Company. Our touring production of The Lost Treasure of Tortuga, an original one hour presentation, has been designed to “Educate, Enlighten & Entertain!” In this study guide, developed by professional educators and English-language teachers, you will find Pre- and Post-Performance Activities and Discussion Topics, as well as teacher and student resources. For students who are learning English we have also included key vocabulary so that your students will get the most out of our performances. This study guide may be reproduced and distributed to students. It can be found on our website https://www.calliopetheatrecompany.pt/the-lost-treasure-of-tortuga Calliope Theatre Company’s The Lost Treasure of Tortuga is an interactive performance and we encourage your students’ participation and we will be asking a number of your students to join us on stage. Calliope Theatre Company welcomes your opinion & suggestions on our performances and Study Guides, so that we can continue to provide teachers and students with the finest in- school, educational theatre experience. We love hearing from students and teachers. Please encourage your students to leave a comment on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/calliopetheatreportugal/ , follow us on Twitter or write us letters and tell us what you thought of the show! Sincerely, Meg and Matthew Calliope Theatre Company 2 The Lost Treasure of Tortuga TABLE OF CONTENTS The Vocabulary and Activities that are highlighted in red are the most important in ensuring that your students understand and enjoy The Lost Treasure of Tortuga.
    [Show full text]