A pirate for all seasons? Captain Kidd and pirates in popular culture A review of 'Pirates: the Captain Kidd story', an exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, 20 May-30 October 2011

摘要

The recent exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands - 'Pirates: the Captain Kidd story' -was developed by Tom Wareham and Hilary Davidson. This exhibition took advantage of the widespread popular appeal of pirates - most vividly epitomised by the worldwide success of Jerry Bruckheimer's Pirates of the Caribbean film phenomena (2003; 2006; 2007; 2011) with Johnny Depp's charismatic and tongue-in-cheek depiction of the ambiguously anti-heroic Captain Jack Sparrow. However, the museum show focused on the life and death of one of England's most famous real-life pirates, William Kidd (c. 1645-1701).