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Bagnio in broken English admonishing me to "Sit still" on the

Celebrated characters such as the radical John Wilkes, courtesans Kitty Fisher and Mrs Abington, the magistrate Sir John Fielding and rake Colonel Francis Charteris shine in his descriptions and he gives gripping accounts of the mysterious kidnapping of Elizabeth Canning and the unsolved murder of Ann Bell, left brutalised by her client in a bagnio.

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital

Exasperated, the father concluded his letter: "I am apprehensive that the Playhouse has done nothing but prepare my boy for the highway, and my girls for a bagnio."(28)

"Terrific and unprincipled compositions": the reception of 'Lover's Vows' and 'Mansfield Park.'

Cervantes's personal experiences as a captive for five years in a royal bagnio (prison) in Algiers inform the geographical, cultural, and social milieu of the plays.

Cervantes, Miguel de. The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity

It is quite true that antagonism between individuals occasionally becomes exacerbated; that in the course of action or intrigue, Moors and Christians call each other dogs and scoundrels; that the buffoon in The Bagnios of Algiers, the sacristan Tristan, is free with insults for the Moorish children who make fun of him and with jibes directed at the Jew whom he amuses himself by tormenting.

Homelands: Reevaluating Traditional Approaches to Cervantes Through Alternative Biographical Interpretation

While Fuchs's primary critical focus has been less on dramatic than on narrative genres--although, with Aaron Ilika, she has given us the gift of new translations of two of Cervantes' neglected plays, The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana--she has often commented perceptively on English Renaissance theater.

Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Burly Modern Spain

Having lived in Algiers, Morgan would have seen returning corsairs with their booty and hapless captives, drudging along the streets to the bagnios of slavery.

The 1609 expulsion of the Moriscos in early modern British thought

Cruickshank's own specialist knowledge provides descriptions of the bagnios and of the speculative buildings where ill-gotten gains could be had.

Sex and space in London's Georgian society