On this day in 1607, Shakespeare's Hamlet was performed on board the merchant ship, "Red Dragon," anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone; scholars regard this amateur production by the ship's crew as the first staging of a Shakespearean play outside of Europe, and one which predates any New World Hamlet by about 150 years.
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