Episode 162: The Pirate Queen

The History of English Podcast

Kevin Stroud

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In the 1570s, Francis Drake plundered Spanish ships throughout the New World with the private permission of Elizabeth I. His actions marked the first direct challenge to Spanish naval supremacy in the region, and also marked the beginning the English … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English
0:13.2	language.
0:14.5	This is Episode 162, The Pirate Queen.
0:18.8	In this episode, we're going to move the story of English into the 1570s.
0:23.8	It was a decade filled with a lot of firsts.
0:26.4	The decade gave us a book which many people considered to be the first novel composed
0:30.6	in English.
0:32.1	The decade gave us the first permanent theater, and the beginning of the modern acting profession.
0:37.9	It gave us the first reference to several new technologies, and it gave us the first English
0:43.0	captain to sail around the world.
0:45.9	And that last development was tied to the first use of a brand new term in English, the
0:51.0	British Empire.
0:53.0	It was an empire that carried the English language around the world, but as we'll see in
0:57.5	this episode, it all began with pirates.
1:01.5	Those pirates raided and plundered the coasts of the Americas with the tacit support of
1:06.2	the queen, and the Spanish became so infuriated with her that they started to refer to her
1:11.7	as the pirate queen.
1:14.2	So this time we'll explore those developments, and we'll see how they impacted the English
1:19.2	language.
1:21.1	But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is History of
1:25.7	EnglishPodcast.com, and you can sign up to support the podcast and get bonus episodes
1:32.0	at patreon.com slash history of English.
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