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Title: | Hamlet in an Afro-Portuguese Setting: New Perspectives on Sierra Leone in 1607 |
Author: | Hair, Paul E.H. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 5 |
Pages: | 21-42 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | history 1607 culture contact Western culture African culture History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171477 |
Abstract: | For thirty-eight days in August and September of 1607, two ships of an English expedition to the East Indies lay in the Sierra Leone estuary. English documentation of the visit mentions a shipboard performance of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', and the author of the present article attempts to show that the African physical and social circummstances were such that 'Hamlet' might reasonably have been presented in them. In addition, the English documentation throws light on the social setting of Sierra Leone at the time, and provides both a supplement and a corrective to the better known and more extensive Portuguese documentation of the same scene. Notes. |