Image: B. Gomes de Brito, História trágico-marítima (Lisbon: Cong. do Oratório, 1735-36), vol. I [public domain]

Nicolas Chretien des Croix’s 1608 tragedy Les Portugaiz Infortunez draws its inspiration from the classics of Portuguese Discoveries literature but also points forward to new modes of domination: not just the maritime empire of the Portuguese, or the domination of land, but also temporal, in the domination of present time and, therefore, the future.

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Alexander Lash, Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English. Formerly of Baruch College, CUNY & the National Taiwan University