Pirate captains and their crews were violent, even ruthless. Part of this was a necessity. But some captains went beyond the normal, creating an art out of atrocity. Captain Blackbeard and Charles ...

The following article contains spoilers. We once said Charles Vane was the heart of Black Sails, and after the gut-punch of “XXVII,” that heart has stopped. Charles Vane died as he lived ...

Charles Vane is the kind of guy whose name you just can’t help putting “fucking” in, ... In Season 3, he looks more like a pirate (Season 3 seems to be Beard Season); he acts more like a ...

Pirates such as Edward Teach (known as Blackbeard), Charles Vane and Anne Bonney represented chaos rather than ordered civilisation. According to Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, ...

Zach McGowan is quite a presence on TV these days. The actor can currently be seen in Season 3 of Starz’ Black Sails, as his character, Charles Vane, finds himself wanted dead or alive, and back ...