#allegedly whilst on the gallows they started taking their clothes off and distributing it to the crowd
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BIG fan of this 17th century print from a tragicomic playwright's biography of elizabethan pirates
#god... the depiction of the sea as a stage with an audience#and the way it shows how the reinterpretation of real pirate history into drama was well underway long before the golden age#also. big Rosencrantz and Guildenstern energy#the author of this 'historical' pamphlet is more famous for his play - Fortune By Land and Sea - which is also about these two#the print depicts their 1583 hanging at the Wapping execution docks - the same place in black sails james brought thomas in 2.1#allegedly whilst on the gallows they started taking their clothes off and distributing it to the crowd#which is not the first time i have come across historical record of pirates doing that. very funny great job guys#pirate history
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