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 unusual entertainments for the crew and passengers on board the Red Dragon on 5 September 1607, according to a tattered, stained and blotted page of the captain’s diary, on display in a Shakespeare exhibition at the British Library: “We had the Tragedy of Hamlet: and in the afternoon we went altogether ashore, to see if we could shoot an elephant.”
If 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 Shakespeare play.
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