Bromber Robert: English Abandonados and Afortunados

Robert Bromber is an Academic Director of History for the University of Maryland University College. By training he is an Atlantic World specialist. This work represents Dr. Bromber‘s ongoing research into the nexus between the New and Old Worlds, cultural adaptation, the influence of a Church under siege, and governments struggling to understand and control matters previously unknown. Two individuals visited this work, one, because he was one of the afortunados, and the other, came along quite by accident. William Shakespeare was the accidental visitor. While Shakespeare did not directly participate in any of the events in New Spain he was a keen observer of current events. It was his contact with the British Admiralty and friends in Elizabeth‘s court that made him take notice of David Ingram, an afortunado. Ingram, through a deposition, gave Shakespeare the location, some characters, and some indisputable elements from which the Tempest sprang.