Pirate Corner: Modern Myths and Counter-Myths
I examine some of the curious misapprehensions surrounding Golden Age piracy. Content note: murder by drowning. The popular image of the Golden Age of Piracy is a mélange of elements drawn from across and outside the relevant period (even if we count seventeenth century buccaneers as “Golden Age” alongside their early eighteenth century successors), and from later novels, plays, and films. It will come as no surprise that many elements of it are inauthentic, or at best unatte
