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Title:Hamlet in an Afro-Portuguese Setting: New Perspectives on Sierra Leone in 1607
Author:Hair, Paul E.H.ISNI
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.
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