...or" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnav
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Sir Francis Drake was a sea captain and explorer, famous for voyages to the New World and sai
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..., ''New World’s Tragedy'' … was acted at the Rose in that year” (289). But Drake did not die until early 1596, so it is unclear what aspects of this expedit
...n subject for your wits” (qtd. in Ramsaram 101) surely ought to imply that Drake’s adventures had ''not'' yet been dramatised by 1596.
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<td>tis Personæ are Drake, Candish, Magellan, Lemaire,</td>
...t rather than inspecting the Sotheby's catalogue himself, noted only that "Drake, Cavendish, and Magellan figure in the dramatis personae" (''PMLA'' 690).
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...both Ulalia and George were implicated. The four were tried by
Sir Francis Drake, found guilty, and executed" (p. 27).
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Francis Oscar. ''The Works of Thomas Deloney.'' Oxford: Clarendon, 1912. [http://ww
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In the context of Sir John Harington’s list of quartos (see Furnivall), Wilhelm Creizenach assu
...st of the West Indies'', 1601, must surely have given a prominent place to Drake’s adventures” (99).
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