The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I have been fortunate to have found a series of wonderful interlocutors in the study of Spain and England, from Roland Greene, Patricia Parker, and Stephen Orgel, who fostered my earliest work on the topic, to my dear friend Edmund Campos, to the wonderful colleagues and students who explored the Spanish connection with me at the Folger and at Penn, including Elizabeth Bearden, Larissa Brewer-García, Brian Lockey, and Miguel Martínez. Along the way, Marshall Brown reinforced my conviction that comparatists make magnificent mentors. I dedicate this book to him as a small measure of my appreciation. My UCLA writing group—Christine Chism, Caroline Ford, Hannah Landecker, Zrinka Stahuljak, and Sarah Stein—provided valuable feedback on several chapters. I owe thanks also to the friends who generously commented on various sections: Karina Galperín, J. K. Barret, Eric Griffin, and Paul Saint-Amour. Walter Cohen, who read the manuscript for Penn Press with an eagle eye, made invaluable suggestions for which I am truly grateful. I have been fortunate to work with very fine research assistants, now valued colleagues—Cyrus Mulready, Emily Weissbourd, and Sara Torres—on different aspects of this project, as well as with the gracious Tamar Boyadjian, who helped with Latin translations. As an early modernist, it is rare that I have the privilege of engaging with contemporary practitioners, and I am grateful to Jesús Eguía Armenteros and Gregory Doran for discussing their respective productions with me. Stephen Greenblatt graciously provided me with an early copy of the Cardenio that he wrote with Charles Mee. Katherine Jeffs and Carla della Gatta shared with me their work on the representation of Spain on the English stage, and their infectious enthusiasm for the topic. Early versions of some of the arguments in this book first appeared in Modern Philology, the Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Oxford Handbook to Thomas Middleton, edited by Gary Taylor, and Laureations: Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson, edited by Roze Hentschell and Kathy Lavagnino. I am grateful to the various editors and readers for their suggestions. My research 186 Acknowledgments was supported by two generous grants from the UCLA Academic Senate. For kindly granting permissions for images, I owe thanks to the Huntington Library , the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the Art Institute of Chicago, the UK National Portrait Gallery, and the American Repertory Theater. Jesús Eguía, Burt Sun, and Raúl Salazar also graciously facilitated images. Jerry Singerman, at Penn Press, has been as responsive and constructive as ever. I am fortunate to have him as my editor and my friend. As always, I thank my family for their patience and support, including everything from traipsing to Stratford to helping me collate versions of Cardenio. It is a pleasure to share with them my love for what I do. ...