Heroic Drama
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Heroic Drama, style of playwriting imported into England during the Restoration in imitation of French classical tragedy. Written in rhymed couplets, and observing strictly the
unities of time, place, and action, it deals mainly with the Spanish theme of ‘love and honour’ on the lines of Corneille's
Le Cid. Its chief exponent was
Dryden, whose Conquest of Granada (1670/1) best displays both its faults and virtues. Its vogue was short-lived.
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The man who found Robinson Crusoe; (1) Under the hammer: The journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, left (2) Robinson Crusoe: Pierce Brosnan's 1997 version.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...Crusoe. Now the journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, who found Alexander Selkirk on...The personal account documents Rogers' early 18th century voyage round...marooned for more than four years. Rogers was a friend of Defoe, who used...
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PIRATE HUNTER.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/6/2008; 700+ words
; ...frigates under the command of Captain Woodes Rogers had finally caught sight of one...million pounds today. Captain Woodes Rogers was a privateer a pirate in all...historian Graham A. Thomas, tells Woodes Rogers' remarkable story. Nor does...
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NEW PROVIDENCE.(past piracy and pirates on the Bahamas)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...appointed as governor Captain Woodes Rogers, himself an ex-privateer...although piracy continued elsewhere. Woodes Rogers moved into Fort Nassau, where...Crusoe From 1708-1711, Captain Woodes Rogers commanded a round-the-world...
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Banyans, hospitality flourish in Bahamas
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/24/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Standing in front of the BC is a statue of Woodes Rogers, the former privateer who as governor of the...Bahamas' most influential colonial governor, Rogers also is commemorated by Woodes Rogers Walk, which runs along the harbor by the cruise...
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Company spiced up world trade
Newspaper article from: Bristol Evening Post; 2/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the company in its heyday is well illustrated by the Woodes Rogers expedition to ravage the Spanish and find treasure...tried to seize the treasure on the spurious grounds that Woodes Rogers had breached their trade monopoly in the area. Rogers...
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Robinson Crusoe's Creator. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Crusoe: 'Each captain had in his great cabin a copy of Woodes Rogers' book, Cruising Voyages Round the World. They were...reminder that they expected their captains to repeat Woodes Rogers' lucrative foray into the South Sea'. In recognising...
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Souhami, Diana. Selkirk's island; the true and strange adventures of the real Robinson Crusoe.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...primitive beast." The captain of the rescuing ship. Woodes Rogers, came to see the potential value of the story of this...England, several versions of his story were published. Woodes Rogers sought the help of Richard Steele (partner of Joseph...
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Bidding for rare copy of world voyage diary
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 1/6/2009; 366 words
; ...It is a first-hand account of a voyage by Captain Woodes Rogers. Mr Hanson said: "The book is remarkable. The diary...original Herman Moll maps from 1718 detailing Captain Woodes Rogers' global route. Only about 100 copies of the book were...
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Trying to find real Robinson Crusoe, and site of his shipwreck.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/28/2002; 700+ words
; ...in 1709 by the famed British privateers and explorers Woodes Rogers and William Dampier turned him into a celebrity and...his life to the rich and well documented adventures of Woodes Rogers and William Dampier and the privateer's war between...
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LEGEND OF THE CASTAWAY.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...of the tale when he was asked by Woodes Rogers, captain of the ship which had rescued...Steele to give it something extra, Rogers believed, as one account of the...Cooke was so desperate to outdo Rogers and be first into print that he published...
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Woodes Rogers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Woodes Rogers 1679?-1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708-9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander...
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Rogers, Woodes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Rogers, Woodes (d. 1732), commander of a privateering expedition (1708–11) in which Dampier was pilot, and in the course of...
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Bonny, Anne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...occasions with that of English Captain Woodes Rogers, who became the first royal governor...appointment of King George I in 1718. Rogers, like James Bonny, a native of...well as his own income, Governor Rogers was determined to curtail the activity...
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privateer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...successful British privateers was Woodes Rogers (d. 1732). He was engaged by...20 and 26 guns respectively. With Rogers in the Duke was William Dampier...bullion, silk, and precious stones. Rogers, who had been wounded in the battle...
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the Bahamas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...proprietors of Carolina, who did not relinquish their claim until 1787, although Woodes Rogers , the first royal governor, was appointed in 1717. Under Rogers the pirates and buccaneers, notably Blackbeard , who frequented the Bahama waters...
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