Spithead and Nore Mutinies - in The Arts

In The Arts

• Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd, and the opera based on it by Benjamin Britten, are set immediately after the main mutinies.
• The Men They Couldn't Hang, an English folk-punk group, commemorated the executed leaders of the mutiny in the ballad "The Colours" (1988).
• Mutiny by Julian Stockwin is a fictional account of the Nore mutiny.
• The movie H.M.S. Defiant (released in the U.S. as Damn the Defiant!) is a fictional account of a similar mutiny at sea at this time.
• The father of the protagonist of Frederick Marryat's The King's Own was hanged for his part in the Nore mutiny.
• Much of the Dewey Lambdin novel A King's Captain is set during the Nore Mutiny as seen by the protagonist, Alan Lewrie.