British Library exhibition ranges from 17th-century captain’s log of Hamlet at sea to David Tennant’s ‘To be or not to be’There were two strange entertainments for the crew and passengers on board the Red Dragon on 5 September 1607,according to a tattered and stained page of the captain’s diary: “We had the Tragedy of Hamlet: and in the afternoon we went altogether ashore, to see whether we could shoot an elephant.”Now on display in a major Shakespeare exhibition at the British Library, or whether the diary of Captain Keeling is genuine,it is the first record anywhere in the world of an overseas – literally, in this case – performance of a play by the bard.
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Source: theguardian.com