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The Spanish Armada and Drake in English and Spanish Literatures

The Spanish Armada and Drake in English and Spanish Literatures

Spain’s decadence and England’s rise to power is commonly believed to be the result of the uncontested victory of the English navy over Philip II and the Duke of Medina Sidonia’s obsolete and slow Spanish Armada in 1588. Recurrent images of the Protestant God-sent winds and storms against England’s enemies, the genius of Queen Elizabeth I and the audacity of Sir Francis Drake, mythological gods for the English nation but piratical devils for the Spaniards, have contributed to a “Britannia rules the waves” mentality among the British. Writers, historians, politicians and artists have repeated these die-hard clichés at different times of Britain’s history depending on the specific political circumstances of the time. The list of contributors to the construction of the national English/British identity is long: William Cecil, David Hume, Oliver Pigg, Petruccio Ubaldini, John Strype, Lord Macaulay, Thomas Deloney, Edward Clarke, Thomas Lathbury, William Camden, James Anthony Froude, James Aitken Wylie, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Southey, Geoffrey Parker and Colin Smith, many editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, films, TV, the radio, the internet, the church pulpit…

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  • 1. An Invincible Armada?
    • 1588: A clash of titans
    • The Spanish Armada vs. the British propagandistic Armada
  • 2. The Gran Armada as Perceived through the Lenses of British, Spanish and Irish Chroniclers and Historians
    • English/British bibliography on England’s most invigorating naval “victory” and Spain’s most humiliating “defeat” in the history of the western world
    • Spain’s modest and belated armada of publications on the “Enterprise of England”
    • Irish bibliography on the Spanish Armada: Ireland, the Spaniards’ cemetery
  • 3. The Spanish Armada in English Literature: The Epic Recreation of an English Victory, of a Resounding Spanish Defeat, and the Negation of the Irish Episode
    • English poetry on the Spanish Armada
    • English fiction on the Spanish Armada
    • English children’s and young adults’ fiction and history books on the Spanish Armada
    • English drama on the Spanish Armada
  • 4. Sir Francis Drake vs. el pirata Draque
    • Don Pedro de Valdés and his literary projection
    • Drake in the English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries and its impact in the ensuing centuries
    • Drake, a folkloric and legendary hero of mythological proportions
    • “Draque” the pirate in Spanish literature
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 6. Works Cited
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