Published Online: May 01, 2014
Page range: 183 - 194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0022
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Piracy is both an ancient and a modern social ill. Yet in American popular culture pirates have emerged as dashing heroic figures and Robin Hoods of the Sea. Some examples of this transformation of the pirate image from criminal to popular hero are explored in British and American fiction, cinema and other forms of popular culture.