Dr. Moore Publishes on Heywood Drama

Fun fact: The Azores Islands rest on a triple junction of continental plates: the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the African Plate. Thomas Heywood, who wrote The Fair Maid of the West around 1600, did not know this fact. But he did seem to know that the Azores were a global cultural crossroads for early modern trade routes. So did pirates. Gaywyn Moore's recent article in Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World explores the Azores' role in conferring global citizenship in Heywood's delightful romp of a play about early modern female seafarers and a barmaid turned pirate who's plundering the new world wealth of Spanish trade ships while seeking her beloved's body to give him a proper burial (spoiler: he's not really dead).